Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings by Emalie Bingham, a South African artist who currently lives in Bristol, UK.
Bingham collects, deconstructs, and redesigns marks as symbols, developing a system of abstract signs through form, material, and process. This visual alphabet consists of intentional, repetitive explorations of personally significant objects as well as collage offcuts and incidental brush strokes. The compositions impose a ‘visual dyslexia’, requiring imaginative readings, and so what each mark represents will depend on interpretation.
Playfully juxtaposing, layering, and collaging marks as repeating motifs, Bingham explores countless possible outcomes. This improvised act of deconstructing and re-patterning of recurring forms is inextricable from the concepts represented by each mark and the evolving design. For the artist, the abstract designs that emerge pose questions and conversations about notions of framing, visibility, belonging, transition, chaos, deviance, and perception.
This is Bingham’s first solo exhibition with the London gallery.