Ella Kruglyanskaya @ Thomas Dane Gallery

Ella Kruglyanskaya displays her deeply original streak— part-rebellious, part-classicist—and continues her focus on the gendered and expressionistic histories of painting albeit with a more personal and introspective drive. The exhibition takes the form of a continuous collage in two parts across both gallery spaces. Each includes a profusion of works on canvas, egg tempera panels and works on paper, unpacking the traditions of portraiture, still-life, trompe l’oeil and the memento mori, scrutinising her own artistic output throughout.

This is a Robbery forms a counter narrative in which expectations are upturned and the usual hierarchies of techniques and genres are levelled to an even ground.  It displays the loot of a voracious and versatile imagination, always ‘on the verge’.