Alison Jacques has announced representation of London-based artist Gina Kuschke (b.1992, Cape Town, South Africa), and presents ‘A Place Beyond’, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of Kusche’s work.
Since completing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art and BA in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Kuschke has developed a practice of abstract painting, giving form to a confluence of cultures, migratory patterns and memories. Kuschke works the paintings until they reflect a true translation of her lived experience.
At the core of this exhibition is a body of work which began in spring 2025, during the artist’s two-month residency at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall. This beachside haven became a site of solitary inquiry, where the unfolding present, immediate landscape and her own personal histories converged in painting to evoke a spirit of place. In Kuschke’s gestural approach to landscape, her canvases map this meeting between inner geography and her external environment.
Gina Kuschke, A Place Beyond, 15th January – 21st February 2026 Alison Jacques
Preview: Wednesday 14th January, 6PM-8PM
About the artist
Gina Kuschke (b. South Africa; lives and works in Cape Town) creates paintings and mixed-media works that move between abstraction and figuration, guided by a raw, tactile sensitivity to colour and gesture. Her surfaces accumulate in layers—washed, scraped, reworked—so that forms appear to push through from beneath, like memories surfacing or landscapes shifting in light. Bodies, flora and fragments of place recur in her work, not as fixed images but as emotional coordinates.
Kuschke’s practice often explores the tension between interior states and the external world. Soft hues collide with more urgent marks; tender passages sit beside ruptures; silhouettes dissolve into atmospheric fields. The result is a visual language that feels intuitive yet deliberate, grounded in material exploration and the rhythms of daily experience.
With a sensibility attuned to vulnerability, repair and the quiet volatility of feeling, Kuschke transforms painting into a space of reflection—open, searching, and alive to the subtle negotiations that shape how we inhabit ourselves and our surroundings.
