Upcoming
24.4 – 31.5 2025
Grace Lee:Love & Theft
3–5 Swallow Street Project Space
Grace Lee:Love & Theft
24.04 – 31.05.2025
Upcoming
Hours
Monday to Friday, 11:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow Street, Project Space
London
W1B 4DE
Grace Lee. You Wish (2025)
Grace Lee. I Am Not Afraid Of Ghosts (2025)
‘Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.’ – David Foster Wallace.
Huxley-Parlour are delighted to announce Love & Theft, a new solo exhibition by Grace Lee, opening in April 2025. For their second solo exhibition with the gallery, the artist returns to a preoccupation with loss and control in a suite of new small-scale paintings which navigate thematic and conceptual tensions of the archive.
Grace Lee. I Am Not Afraid Of Ghosts (2025)
Weaving together cultural iconography with personal histories, images are lifted from books, manuals, film posters, advertisements, and photographs that are digitally collected before being collated and compounded, recontextualising them through juxtaposition and association. The result is a figurative likeness, but one characterised by a simplicity of pictorial information, tracing line, shape, and tone.
B. United Kingdom1995
Biography
In an immediate, bold and graphic style, Grace Lee invites their audience to look twice. Using repeated motifs of various instruments, portraits, and animals, Lee’s paintings recreate scenes seemingly pulled from a comic book or medieval manuscript. Taking inspiration from the British Museum’s collection, Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige, and the New Testament, Lee’s intricately detailed works continue to reveal new secrets.
Lee, born 1995, received their BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London and their MA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Their work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Italy, United States and China. They were awarded the Barto Dos Santos Memorial Award in 2021, as well as the NOA15 East of England Award and shortlisted for The Worshipful Company of Painters-Stainers Award in 2015. Lee lives and works in London.