Vardaxoglou Gallery presents a group exhibition curated by artist Tanoa Sasraku, bringing together works providing a critical context to the artist’s series of Terratypes. The individual works included have been selected for their visual, material, or conceptual connection with Sasraku’s Terratypes, a body of work started in 2020 which draws on the artist’s personal and historical connection to the British landscape. The exhibition displays the various influences on Sasraku’s Terratypes, from a Pre-Independence Asafo Flag, a 1947 Bill Brandt photograph, to a 1972 Richard Smith shaped canvas, and includes peers of the artist working today: Margarita Gluzberg, Jonathan Callan, and Anastasia Xirouchakis.  A published conversation between Vanessa Peterson (associate editor of Frieze Magazine) and Tanoa Sasraku will accompany the exhibition.

Terratypes are unique, sculptural hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and textiles. To create these works, the artist forages for million-year old earth pigments in locations like Dartmoor, the Jurassic Coast, the Scottish Highlands, Cornwall and Ghana, hand-rubbing them into sheets of blank newsprint, which are then sewn, soaked and ripped, revealing past layers of pigment and pattern; the intersection of geological time and personal memory. 

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The exhibition will be open with extended hours during London Gallery Weekend, on Friday 31 May and Saturday 1 June from 11am–6pm, and on Sunday 2 June, 12–5pm.