PIERMARQ* is pleased to present ‘Tending to the Tender Things’ an exhibition of new work by British-French artist Galina Munroe. This is the artist’s fourth exhibition with PIERMARQ* in Sydney.
Munroe’s still lifes exist within a playfully skewed world, where shifting shapes and forms illustrate the textured surface of her canvases. The artist’s approach to painting is both organic and liberating, as she layers collage and oil paint in a process that ebbs and flows through multiple stages and conceptual evolutions.
'Tending to the Tender Things' consists of 19 works on canvas that depict table settings, floral arrangements and domestic scenes. Her loose, abstract method of layering means that her works only come to fruition towards the very end, similar to the life-cycle of her subject matter of fruits and flora. In this way, the passage of time is prevalent, in both process and motif, invoking connotations of life, death and what we see and experience in between. Works such as ‘Dominoes on the Kitchen Table’ and ‘The Green Paternoster ’ capture whimsical and nostalgic moments reminiscent of memories - with fragments of poems, tea stained, delicate and dreamlike.
Munroe has exhibited both solo and group exhibitions internationally and widely across Europe and the US, including London, Berlin, Cologne, Copenhagen and Milan.
