A Room of Her Own : Works on paper and ceramics by women artists

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Press release
A Room of Her Own 
20 November - 18 January 
Festive Drinks: Friday, November 29th, 4 - 8 PM
Upsilon Gallery, London
 
Upsilon Gallery London is pleased to present A Room of Her Own, a group exhibition featuring works on paper and ceramics by emerging and mid-career women artists, including Francine Tint, Xinyan Zhang, Diane Chappalley, Leila Bartell, Cathy Tabbakh, Natacha Ivanova, Evie Mae Jacobs, Ruby Bateman, Nina Khemchyan, K Blick, Hannah Lim and Laura Grinberga. The exhibition will run from November 20th to January 18th.
 
A Room of Her Own takes inspiration from Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, which powerfully asserts the need for women to have space—both physical and creative—to nurture their artistic expression. Echoing Woolf’s concept, this exhibition honours that space of one’s mind and freedom, emphasising the nature of drawings and ceramics as media that allow for immediacy, delicacy, and an unfiltered emotional resonance.
 
By showcasing only works on paper and ceramics, the exhibition highlights the raw, tactile nature of these materials, embracing spontaneous gestures and profound emotions. The show brings together a range of approaches that celebrate women’s artistic autonomy, exploring both emotional and cultural themes. From Francine Tint’s abstract expressionist works on paper to Cathy Tabbakh’s fusion of figuration and abstraction, each artist contributes to this diverse conversation. Diane Chappalley’s Anxious Flowers, a delicate ceramic installation arranged like a constellation across the gallery wall, and Salomé Wu’s spiritually charged drawings evoke feelings of beauty, fragility, and transcendence. Meanwhile, Hannah Lim and Xinyan Zhang, both of Chinese heritage, add a cultural dimension: Lim reinterprets traditional Chinoiserie with a contemporary approach, while Zhang blends Chinese painting techniques with Western post-expressionism, creating a dialogue that bridges Eastern and Western aesthetics.
 
Curated within the gallery's lower ground floor room, the setting of the show feels intimate and warm, capturing the essence of the current season, creating an artistic dialogue that invites personal connection and introspection from visitors.
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