Frestonian Gallery presents their newest exhibition at the gallery; Metaphorically Speaking by Dutch Artist Sanne Maloe Slecht. The exhibition is a bold explosion of colour, texture and patterns. Slecht’s art in this exhibition is an example of how her style has developed into a truly personal and unusual painting style, teetering on the edge of abstract and reality.
It is no surprise that many of the motifs Slecht allows to form in the works are themselves definitively ambiguous – windows, stairs, ladders, gateways – elements that are necessarily liminal; threshold spaces whose existence can be fairly adjuged to depend on their non-spaceness set between two or more other planes or places.
Adding another thought-provoking element to each piece is their titles; Slecht’s has selected these from her ever-growing collection of snatched moments of conversations, song lyrics, nonsense poems and other disconnected fragment. Some of our favourite examples include ‘No, you are in the box!’, ‘The Smell of Sand’ and ‘Waldorf Salad’.
Born in 1987 in the Netherlands, Slecht is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art, completing her MA in 2019. In her relatively short career, she has produced an impressive body of work rightly recognised by a number of esteemed institutions. Previous exhibitions of her work have been displayed in Gallery Bipolar, Gallerie der HFBK, Hockney Gallery, The Herrick Gallery with her first major solo show displaying in Amsterdam’s Galerie Bart.
With Slecht’s career set to continue to reach heady heights, we can’t wait to check the work of this exciting artist. The exhibition is running until the 14th August.
Gallery opening times:
Tuesday to Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturday: Midday – 4pm
