Exciting New Art Exhibition UNVEILED at Hornchurch Gallery.

By Ruth Kettle-Frisby – Guest Writer and Community Activist

Ruth is passionate about fostering positive change within the local community and regularly contributes insights and stories to The Havering Daily.

UNVEILED, at Fry’s Gallery in Hornchurch, is an exciting new exhibition running from 20 June to 4 July in collaboration with self-taught ceramicist Lindsay Matthews and Natasha Porter who runs LeNu Life Drawing alongside Adrian Henderson.

This poignantly named exhibition captures meaning far beyond the literal disrobing of enchantingly human forms, notably Emily the Muse, who is featured in some of the exhibition’s most arresting works.

Emily and her fellow models are dissected and constructed; empowered and transformed; elevated and imbued with hidden truths and organic meaning, paying homage to a mutually creative symbiosis between artist and model.

Unveiled lifts the lid to expose endless creative possibilities available to anyone, reclaiming art and meaning; situating it in small but mighty community spaces where a hive of local artists and models find inspiration, belonging and purpose.

Across this multi and mixed-media collaboration, threads of subversion that simmer away beneath a surface of social restraints are laid bare; freeing imaginations, and revealing a vibrant and caring body-positive network of local artists and artworks ever-emerging in small, unassuming creative pockets of sheer brilliance.

The resulting impact is a curiously unapologetic space to breathe, while unleashing into plain sight the political elephants that stifle authenticity and self-discovery. From the persistence of patriarchal greed, and the silencing of free and outspoken women; to expositions of strength in vulnerability through splintering explosions of colour; and hauntingly slick manipulations of light and shade. 

Facets of power divide us, distorting universal truths and lived realities for ordinary people to the point of abstraction, making us unrecognisable – even to ourselves. Each artwork in this courageous exhibition offers conceptual clarity, while challenging the spectator to unmask and embark on a journey of grounded creative reinvention.

Featuring works by accomplished local artists including: Suzanne Pye; Luke Jones; Stephen O’Neill; and Howard Gough; as well as Lindsay Matthews and Natasha Porter, this rich celebration of local talent is not to be missed.

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