Current
31.10 – 30.11 2024
Raphael Barratt:Equinox
45 Maddox Street
Raphael Barratt:Equinox
31.10 – 30.11.2024
Current
Hours
Monday to Saturday
10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Gallery
45 Maddox Street
London
W1S 2PE
Raphael Barratt. Under the Setting Sun (2024)
Raphael Barratt. The Warmth of Shadows (2024)
Huxley-Parlour are pleased to present Equinox, Raphael Barratt’s first exhibition with the gallery, opening at our Maddox Street space in October 2024. The exhibition will present twelve new paintings, made by the artist in the last year. Central to Barratt’s practice is the relation between figure and landscape; immersing her characters in ambiguous environments, the artist employs them as a means to explore emotion and the atmospheric.
Raphael Barratt. The Warmth of Shadows (2024)
In this new body of work, Barratt excavates the uneasy tensions between presence and absence, remoteness and immediacy. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the paintings are situated in a moment of transition, underpinned by an intensity that is marked by flux: figures that share a composition never meet each other’s gaze, a wine glass lies on its side, its contents spilling out across a gingham tablecloth, and figures are rendered only partially visible.
THE EXHIBITION
5
The Works
10
Raphael Barratt
Flight Among the Trees
2024
Oil on paper
Raphael Barratt
Leaving the Table
2024
Oil on paper
Raphael Barratt
Equinox
2024
Oil on paper
Raphael Barratt
Persephone Alone
2024
Oil on paper
Raphael Barratt
Under the Setting Sun
2024
Oil on canvas
Raphael Barratt
The Warmth of Shadows
2024
Oil on canvas
Raphael Barratt
Beyond Sight
2024
Oil on canvas
Raphael Barratt
Turn Towards
2024
Three panels of oil on canvas
Raphael Barratt
The Shade
2024
Oil on board
Raphael Barratt
Vale
2024
Oil on board
B. United KingdomBorn 1994
Biography
Influenced by the ancient landscape in which she grew up, Raphael Barratt explores ways to use landscape to set both the mood and aesthetic structure in her work. Inspired by Indian miniatures as well as the sculptural stillness of the early Renaissance techniques, especially those of Giotto and Piero Della Francesca, Barratt’s work does not define topographical truth but rather alludes to the specific atmosphere of moments in a place or landscape, both in the present and in memory.
Barratt works on paper prepared for oil, the surface of which creates a texture that is close to that of fresco. Using thin layers of paint and linseed oil, Barratt builds a luminescent quality in the painting’s surface which is balanced by areas of deep, dark colour. Born in 1994 in Kent, Barratt received her BA in painting from Camberwell College of Art, London in 2017 before undertaking the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School, London, graduating in 2018.
She lives and works in Kent.