Closed
27.10 – 25.11 2023
Nadine Ijewere:Anthesis
3–5 Swallow St
Nadine Ijewere:Anthesis
27.10 – 25.11.2023
Closed
Hours
Monday to Saturday
10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow St
London
W1B 4DE
Nadine Ijewere. Heritage, Senegal (2021)
Huxley-Parlour is pleased to present Anthesis, the first solo UK exhibition of photographer Nadine Ijewere. Ijewere is known for her innovative and disruptive approach to fashion photography. The exhibition traces the radical fusion of genres across the artist’s work.
The exhibition comprises a suite of thirteen large-scale colour photographs, drawn from four years of work between 2019 and 2023. Sensual and intimate, the works are representative of Ijewere’s command of colour as well as an experimental treatment of composition. Ijewere’s focus on tonality and the tactile is complimented by a practice that maintains a painterly focus on abstraction through form and patternation. Ijewere uses these tools to further dissolve the boundaries between photographic genres, using the tactile qualities of textile and setting to playfully world-build.
The Exhibition
6
The Works
12
Nadine Ijewere
Ibrahim
2021
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Akon in Portland
2022
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Senegalese Fisherman, Senegal
2023
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Fisherman’s Cove, Jamaica
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Heritage, Senegal
2021
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
In the Lagoon, Portland
2022
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Sisterhood in Sand
2019
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Girl in Pink, Dominican Republic
2019
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Anok, Port Antonio, Jamaica
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Girl in a Top Hat
2020
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Stillness & Palms, Dominican Republic
2019
Archival Pigment Print
Nadine Ijewere
Divine
2023
Archival Pigment Print
B. United Kingdom1992
Biography
Nadine Ijewere (born 1992) studied photography at the London College of Fashion. In 2018 she was the first woman of colour to shoot the cover of British Vogue. She accomplished the same achievement for American Vogue in 2021. Ijewere’s work has been featured in the group exhibitions The Tate Britain Generation exhibition in 2016, and The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion at Saatchi Gallery, London, in 2022. Her first solo exhibition, Beautiful Disruption, was held at C/O Berlin in 2021. In 2019 she was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Award for Editorial, Advertising and Fashion Photography, and the following year she received the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Her first monograph, Our Own Selves, was published in 2021 by Prestel Publishing. She lives and works in London.