About

AL is a contemporary artist who has studied visual art and photography. She was a finalist in the 2023 Bluethumb art prize. Her abstract expressionist paintings are best known for their interplay of movement and stillness. Her gestural style gives viewers the sense of witnessing a sliver of a fever dream or dance - thick bold brushstrokes, delicate drips and mesmeric washes of colour culminate in pieces that invite the viewer to contemplate their relationship to themselves and the wider world.

AL’s work is vulnerable and exquisitely human, and her paintings explore the personal and the political, the organic and the artificial. She uses her work to explore personal issues, where paint becomes a visible language for the unutterable and unnamed.

She is inspired by poets including Pablo Neruda, Nayyirah Waheed, and David Whyte whose works she uses as stimulus to create pieces that are evocative and reflective. She most often works under the influence of genre (jazz/blues) music, including Joep Beving, Dan Auerbach, Townes Van Zandt, Jack Broadbent and Hiatus Kyote. Her process is highly immersive and movement based, and the final works are somewhat akin to a snapshot of a dancer, frozen in fevered motion.