Lindsey Carr
Still Life

November 14th - December 6th 2025

Opening night reception Friday, November 14th 6-9pm

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Scotland based painter Lindsey Carr has exhibited at the gallery for years, with her first exhibitions focusing on her humorous spins on meticulously painted and gilded homages to Victorian Orientalist art featuring birds and mammals as protagonists. Since then her practice has evolved into deep dives into the floral masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age painters, but with a highly distorted and surrealistic spin. Her latest works expand upon than theme but has added a sci fi influence, featuring fantastical plants in otherworldly landscapes. Her works range from dark and atmospheric to hyper color palettes, with an incredibly refined painting technique.

“I combine traditional oil painting techniques with unexpected source references to create my work. My main inspirations are the rich symbolism of 16th-century Dutch still life paintings and the imaginative realms of science fiction. For this show I chose to do “still life” because I feel like it's a very underrated art form, often considered one of paintings lesser genre's…Historically it was obviously all about publicising the status of the owner and displaying objects of desire. So then I thought about objects of desire …What about desire without the object? Leaving an empty space seemed predictable and clumsy so I decided to make still life's whose central object was indeterminate but still seductive and desirable. The visual language is baroque/ theatrical so there's pomp and materiality. The colour, surface, paint handling is all traditional, so it confers a kind of historic authority to them without them really making any kind of sense.

With a background as a programmer, I use unconventional methods—like programmatic experiments, photography, and handcrafted maquettes—to generate my source material. This tension between traditional techniques and experimental processes is at the heart of my practice.” - Lindsey Carr

You can learn more about her process here and here.

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