She Came To Stay takes its title from the novel of the same name by the writer Simone de Beauvoir includes the work of Paula Rego DBE, Eileen Cooper RA, Marie Jacotey, Lucy Farley and Annie Kevans.
In keeping with the novel, this group exhibition explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst and the other. These ideas of identity and self and the human condition are ever present in the works portrayed by the artists featured.
This cross-generational exhibition, curated by Aretha Campbell and Lucy Farley, is primarily concerned with painting be it figurative or abstract driven by autobiographical themes. Exploring female writers and painters and subsequently their collective concerns. Through these selected works these artists are questioning the perception of the human condition – concerns, which are all still relevant to today’s society and thus an inherent interest lies in assessing what has happened during that time lapse between females working then and females working from autobiographical sources now.
26th June – 22nd August 7 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HN, London www.rookandraven.co.uk
