Poppy Tingay: SCORCH: Dykes Gaze Back
26th September, 2024 – 3rd October, 2024
LA CAMIONERA
243 Well Street
London
E9 6RG
SCORCH: Dykes Gaze Back’ presents a series of portraits exploring the lesbian gaze, subverting the spectre of old master’s passive muses; and instead recentering queer bodies of today—drag kings, dyke culture, and the creativity of lived queer experience to forefront.
Radiating with queer presence and agency, this exhibition takes you inside the experience of sitting for a portrait, behind the frame, to uncover the scorch of shared looking, the gaze of mutual recognition.
© Poppy Tingay
Using painting as a liminal space, a new kind of intimacy, ‘SCORCH’ explores the gaze as a catalyst of transformation that creates both a bond between artist, subject and viewer, an alchemical dynamic captured alongside the oil on canvas. Tingay’s work disrupts any attempt to categorise the queer subject withing gender norms, painting not in statics, but aflame, in flux.
© Poppy Tingay
About Poppy Tingay
Poppy Tingay is a London based lesbian painter, whose work focuses on portraiture representing the London queer community, painting from life to subvert the classical gaze.
Poppy Tingay: SCORCH: Dykes Gaze Back open on the 26th of September, 2024 until the 3rd of October, 2024 at LA CAMIONERA
©2024 Poppy Tingay
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