Antonia Showering
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Antonia ShoweringBest of both worlds2021Oil on linen59 1⁄8 x 66 7⁄8 in. (150 x 170 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringJust have fun2021Oil on linen39 3⁄8 x 29 1⁄2 in. (100 x 75 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringLies Below2021Oil on linen63 x 55 1⁄8 in. (160 x 140 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringPlus One2021Oil on linen16 1⁄8 x 14 in. (41 x 35.5 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringSacrifice2021Oil on linen51 1⁄8 x 51 1⁄8 in. (130 x 130 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringThe Awakening2021Oil on linen66 7⁄8 x 59 1⁄8 in. (170 x 150 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringTogether Alone2021Oil on linen13 1⁄4 x 17 1⁄2 in. (33.5 x 44.5 cm)
Framed: 16 1⁄4 x 20 5⁄8 in. (41.3 x 52.5 cm) -
Antonia ShoweringYou and me2021Oil on linen63 x 51 1⁄8 in. (160 x 130 cm)
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Antonia ShoweringThe Survivors2020Oil on linen39 3⁄8 x 29 1⁄2 in. (100 x 75 cm)
My paintings try and explore how memory works through stacking lots of recollections on top of one another.
Antonia Showering (b. 1991, London, United Kingdom) is British figurative painter who lives and works in London. Showering is known for her enigmatic, psychologically fraught paintings, with single or coupled subjects set against hazy mountain ranges or in scenes of aqueous, ambiguous domesticity. Showering’s figures seem to slide in and out of their surroundings, while specific elements—rolling hills, mountains or lakes in a landscape, or pieces of furniture—collapse into fluid pools of paint. These areas of abstraction, which seem on the verge of shifting into other forms, nod to the ever-shifting realities of subjectivity, memory, imagination and desire.
Using a rich palette of marigold, amber, carmine and plum, Showering works from abstraction back toward figuration by allowing a base layer of paint to pool in configurations dictated by gravity. She then paints back into the compositions that present themselves, in a process that recalls the automatic-drawing and chance-based systems of Surrealism. The result of numerous translucent washes of oil, which hover on the surface of her paper and linen supports, Showering’s bodies are nonetheless eerily fleshy and alive.
In 2018, a breakout year for the artist, Showering was the recipient of the New Contemporaries x SPACE Studio Bursary Award, The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti, and the Henry Tonks Award.
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Hovering on the Edge
21 March - 20 April 2024 LondonHovering on the Edge draws on the late work of Willem de Kooning to highlight the ways in which contemporary artists navigate the myriad possibilities within abstract art. De Kooning's painting Untitled XVI (1983) anchors the presentation, inviting artists to examine how line and colour transcend drawing, painting, and sculpture to create new pictorial languages.View More -
Birdsong
13 July - 11 August 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present Birdsong, a group exhibition of works showcasing influential voices in contemporary British art, at the gallery’s London space. Spanning genres and generations, Birdsong presents an eclectic group of works by UK-based and British artists including Tomo Campbell, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Tracey Emin, Emma Fineman, Rowley Haynes, Sophie von Hellermann, Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan, Rachel Kneebone, Richard Long, Sahara Longe, Annie Morris, Richard Patterson, Andrew Pierre Hart, Paula Rego, Catherine Repko, Anne Rothenstein, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Antonia Showering, and Rachel Whiteread. This program supports The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer research centre and hospital in London.View More -
Dreaming of Eden
1 June - 14 July 2023 New YorkTimothy Taylor is pleased to announce Dreaming of Eden, a group show highlighting provocative works by female artists at the gallery’s New York space in Tribeca. The exhibition will include works by Alicia Adamerovich, Louise Bourgeois, Francesca DiMattio, Tracey Emin, Emma Fineman, Jenna Gribbon, Natalia González Martín, Karyn Lyons, Malù dalla Piccola, Hayal Pozanti, Antonia Showering, Kiki Smith, Penny Slinger, and Katy Stubbs.View More -
A Thing for the Mind
7 July - 19 August 2022 LondonSix decades after Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) first shocked the art world, the sweeping ambition of his vision continues to reshape the realm of the possible for artists who have followed in his wake. His paintings blend a precise vocabulary of concerns then without precedent in American painting: mundane domestic objects, body parts and cityscapes within abstract fields of paint. As humorous and personal as they are politically incisive, his paintings draw a vivid picture of Guston’s own muddled dreamscape of fears and anxieties as well as of society’s worst impulses.View More -
Antonia Showering
Mixed Emotion 26 January - 5 March 2022 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to present Mixed Emotion, a new exhibition of paintings by Antonia Showering (b. 1991, London, UK). This is the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the artist. In Showering’s work, vivid and velvety colour is drawn like a veil over atmospheric evocations of the workings of memory and emotional experience. The compositions are filled with figures Showering calls ‘the people I love or have loved.’ Narrative flickers obliquely at the edges of her paintings, the ghosts of storylines taking shape in the form of ambiguous familial relationships or romantic encounters dotted with surreal souvenirs, creating a persistent sense of déjà-vu, the way we experience the past and present all at once.View More -
IRL (In Real Life)
8 July - 21 August 2021 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to present IRL (In Real Life), a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures and textile-based works. The title of the exhibition draws from a phrase popularised on the Internet in the mid-1990s, which refers to the division in social relationships between life online and offline—the ‘real one’. Yet in the context of a pandemic that profoundly reduced human contact, cyberspace has come to dominate the ways we work, socialise and connect with the world, blurring the distinction between real and virtual experiences. IRL features work by Kesewa Aboah, Rebecca Ackroyd, Alma Berrow, Lily Bertrand-Webb, Will Brickel, Sahara Longe, Lydia Pettit, Jiab Prachakul, Alexis Ralaivao, Erin M. Riley, Antonia Showering and Honor Titus.View More -
Dwelling Is The Light
15 April - 15 May 2020 LondonCurated by writer and art historian Katy Hessel, Dwelling is the Light is the first in a series of group and solo online exhibitions planned for this spring. Inspired by the evolving effects of the current global lockdown on our attitudes towards nature versus domestic living, Dwelling is the Light presents a curated selection of works by contemporary female artists working within a range of mediums, from figurative and abstract painting to tapestry, sculpture and photography. The title of the exhibition is derived from William Wordsworth’s seminal 1798 poem ‘Tintern Abbey,’ which centers on the author’s meditations on the restorative powers of nature, even in the form of memory. With its emphasis on the dichotomy between sublime nature and urban living, this landmark of British Romantic poetry serves as a point of comparison to these artists’ intimate and often surreal explorations of outdoors and indoors, interiors and exteriors, nature and domesticity.View More
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Panel discussion | Impressionism, colour and contemporary painting
James Fox, Annie Morris, Antonia Showering, and Sinta Tantra 1 February, 6:30 – 7:45pmThe Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens James Fox explores the Impressionists' use of colour and its impact on contemporary painters. In the late...Read More -
Antonia Showering releases limited edition print
In collaboration with Counter Editions and ICA 26 September 2023Counter Editions collaborated with the Institute of Contemporary Arts on this Limited Edition Print Portfolio to celebrate their 75th anniversary. The eight prints will be...Read More -
Museum Acquisition | Antonia Showering
The New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana 20 April 2022The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), the city’s oldest fine arts institution has acquired Sacrifice (2021) by Antonia Showering . This work was first...Read More -
Antonia Showering Joins Timothy Taylor
29 November 2021Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the sole representation of British artist Antonia Showering, who joins a roster of post-war and contemporary artists and estates....Read More