‘Company’, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Donna Huddleston. With a background in set and costume design, the London-based artist’s upcoming exhibition at White Cube Masons Yard draws from the realms of theatre and film, as well as the rich traditions of classical painting, to conjure scenes informed by ideas of atemporality, performativity and fabulation.
Donna Huddleston, Company, 6th – 28th September 2024, White Cube Mason’s Yard
Exhibition Preview: 5th September 2024, 6 – 8pm
About
Donna Huddleston is an Australian artist who lives in London. Her intensely detailed drawings are inspired by various influences spanning the worlds of film, theatre, literature, design and the visual arts. Her media includes Caran d’ache colour pencil, metal-point, watercolour and graphite. Rich with incident and gesture, Huddleston’s drawings and objects intermingle memory, spectral presences and ambiguous comedy. Scissors, an empty but self-replicating room, a line of dancing cowgirls, a gargantuan papier-mâché shell beached on soap, a deranged actress with the bearing of a Tudor duchess – the theatrical world depicted in Huddleston’s work is a tense and emotionally volatile place.
‘Inside the White Cube’ is a series of exhibitions showcasing work by non-represented artists at the forefront of global developments in contemporary art who have not previously exhibited with the gallery. Launched in 2011 at White Cube Bermondsey in London, the programme has since expanded to the gallery’s other locations whitecube.com/inside-the-white-cube
