Miranda Donovan, ‘Scattered’, 2008, Oil and Mixed Media on Board, 140 x 140 x 5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lazarides Gallery. Copyright: Miranda Donovan, 2008.

LONDON.-Lazarides Gallery presents the first solo show by young British painter, Miranda Donovan. Donovan’s unique work fuses an interest in the techniques and outlook of street and urban artists with a dedication to the possibilities and practice of painting. For her Lazarides exhibition, Donovan will present over twenty paintings from five new series of works.

Donovan’s paintings are characterised by their sculpted surfaces built-up inlayers of cement, plaster, sand and paint. The sanded brickwork that forms the first layer on the canvas gives a grid-like structure that the artist then scrawls over with various styles of painted graffiti. Donovan is interested in the interplay of colours, and she explores different juxtapositions of shades and tones in her works, varying both the colour of the brickwork and of the graffiti. The London Street scenes such as Connaught Square (2008) present the graffiti tag in unexpected and incongruous places capturing the rebellious and anarchic spirit that lies within the many citizens disaffected by our political system.

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