Lucy Neish paints on homemade canvases constructed from remnants of past paintings, working with their previous history to coax out new artworks; a cat dead in grass; a goldfinch wrapped in kitchen towel; a twinkling disco ball. Working from found imagery - film screenshots, pictures circulated on WhatsApp groups, photos inadvertently captured and buried deep in a phone’s camera roll - she goes through a process of gathering and collating, creating cinematic collections that remove a subject from its original context and distorts their original intention. Painting these images with a monochromatic or sepia palette, they are unified by an implied gaze and evoke feelings of nostalgia. Far from rose-tinted, however, Neish’s nostalgia is murky, muddy and unsettling.
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