Vardaxoglou is pleased to present ‘Stonehouse’, a solo exhibition with Athens-based Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b. 1986, Stavanger, Norway). It is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. An extended essay by Sam Lincoln will accompany the exhibition.

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Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b. 1986, Stavanger, Norway) is based between Athens and London. Lloyd Rees studied at Goldsmiths where he received his BA in 2010 and is in an ongoing collaboration with Ali Eisa under the name Lloyd Corporation. Sebastian Lloyd Rees’s painting became known for his use of found materials from the urban environment in his Hoarding Works (2014–2018); a series of paintings in which the artist repurposed the boards protecting construction sites of London and New York. After moving to Athens in 2020, Lloyd Rees developed a new language in his painting, shifting from literal use of the urban environment to an approach informed by his physical place within the city. Athens, a vastly different city architecturally, provided a new set of compositional devices for Lloyd Rees. Painting acts as a visual diary of the artist’s daily occurrences and interactions, and observing new ways humans inhabit a city has informed the artist’s series of Black Paintings (2021–2023), presented for the first time at Vardaxoglou in 2023.

Sam Lincoln is an art writer and researcher from Boston, Massachusetts. He is a contributing editor to the Oxonian Review, and has written extensively on the reception of classical aesthetics in modern and contemporary art. His dissertation for Oxford's MSt in art history, "The White, White, White Sea: A Postclassical Account of Cy Twombly's Mediterranean Myth," won the Association for Art History's 2023 Postgraduate Dissertation Prize. He received his BA in classics and comparative literature from Harvard, where he won a Bowdoin Prize for an essay on Cy Twombly's poetic inscriptions.