LKIF Gallery presents They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen, Katie Tomlinson’s (b.1996, England) first solo exhibition with the gallery, through 6 to 27 April 2024.
In this new body of work, each painting is a container for simultaneous narratives that explore representations of femininity, innocence, youth and beauty within contemporary culture.
Tomlinson’s paintings depict representations of female figures that exist amongst vivid colour, playful and surreal motifs, absurdity, symbolism, varying applications of paint, and references to popular culture and the history of art. Through the amalgamation of past and present, the works explore representations of girlhood and womanhood, and critiques the objectification of women throughout the impressionist movement, and today.
Read the press release here.
