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Jacqueline de Jong @ Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
21 January 2022 - 12 March 2022
This exhibition of previously unseen works by Jacqueline de Jong, marks the first opportunity to see the complete group of the artist’s drawings related to her Upstairs-Downstairs paintings from the mid 1980’s, a series of works on paper that is central to her wider oeuvre.
In this collection, each drawing consists of bold, primary acrylic paint and thick black charcoal line-work used to delineate monstrous, hybrid figures, set within a multitude of backgrounds, some representing claustrophobic interiors, or sea- and landscapes, and others devoid of any setting. A key common pictorial trope that defines the series is the presence of a central staircase, echoing the one found in the location it was commissioned for, and which gave the series its suggestive title