Bio
Mary Herbert makes drawings and paintings formed of a composite of feelings, lived-sensation, unconscious processes and observation. Her current work is a series of luminous soft pastel drawings that act as windows into a dream-like realm - tapping into the power of such a space to support alternative models of thinking and perception. Spectral figures, luminescent vessels,dissolving bodies, snakes, fires, pools, moons, lakes and mountains swirl amid a haze of fragile colours. The charged atmosphere has an uncanny yet strangely familiar quality, as if each scene might somehow be anchored in another kind of deep, distant memory. Perhaps one related to Jungian ideas of a collective unconscious and shared ancestral or trans-generational parts of the psyche. Born in Welwyn in 1988, Mary lives and works in London. She gained her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2010, and completed her Postgraduate studies at the Royal Drawing School in 2018. Selected recent exhibitions include: Bloodroot, duo show with James Owens, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland (2020); To See Through It, Lychee One, London UK (Solo) (2021), The Lonely Ones, Curated by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York USA (online) (2021); Becoming Habits Chapter II, Studi0, St Moritz, Switzerland (2021); Unmasked, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London UK (online) (2020); Dance First Think Later, General Practice, Lincoln UK (2020); Somewhere Else for a Little While, Eve Leibe Gallery, London UK (online) (2020); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery & South London Gallery, UK (2019)

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