Stefanie Heinze @ Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

Stefanie Heinze says, “Painting has been my staple medium for years; it’s a medium that can flesh out contradictions. For me, image making is about impossibilities, how I can make a figure walk and lean back at the same time. Body parts, domestic objects, make up, and foodstuffs bleed into one another. The figures become their environment and the consumable products that we surround ourselves with ooze into their forms until it’s a tangled mass of abstraction.
I always start with a small drawing that I translate into large-scale paintings. In the process, I realise how colours and lines speak different languages and ultimately I am concerned with their conversation…”