Phoebe Unwin resumes service in full-colour.
After the black and white paintings in her last exhibition
at Wilkinson in 2015 Distant People and
Self-Soothing Objects I am glad to see Phoebe Unwin make a return to
colour, because she does it brilliantly.
Pregnant
Landscape features 8 paintings hung like drop down menus in Amanda
Wilkinson’s intimate white-cube-above-a-shop in Brewer Street. There is a lot
to take in.
In Unwin's way of working the abstract comes first,
triggering the figurative. Mary Heilmann is referenced in the context of
Unwin’s affinity with ‘the imagined field of vision; the subjective obscured
view; the avoidance of visual metaphors, direct references or narrative … and
the patterns of containment’.
Through smudgy pinks and yellows, shadowy figures
emerge, layers confuse, eyes, an odd nose, fingers grasp a smothering cloud.
The colours hover, suspended, pushing against each other or coalescing. Nothing
is definite, and perhaps it is because of their noisy ambiguity that the colours,
forms and shapes feel barely bound within their rectangular edges, about to burst
out of confinement.
Alli Sharma
Photos courtesy: Amanda Wilkinson Gallery
Pregnant Landscape: Phoebe Unwin, 1-26 May, 2018
Amanda Wilkinson, 1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0SH
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