ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY
COME DRESSED IN BLUE

We are pleased to present ‘Come Dressed in Blue’, a solo show of recent works by Alexis Soul-Gray.

Alexis Soul-Gray (b. 1980, UK) is a contemporary visual artist whose practice is often concerned with loss, memory, and grief. Speculative questioning about the memorial, memory, and commemoration brings together a conjecture of imagery taken from personal and public archival materials.

Through painting, collage, and print, Alexis defaces and rearranges found images - often working in layers, deliberately interrupting images through obstruction as an attempt to create a visceral representation of the thought process. Abstraction and figuration hold equal significance, images are continuously intersecting, abrasive, harmonious, removed, a tangible manifestation of a multi-layered interior state.

Alexis is also interested in the stillness found in studio shot images of children and women, floristry, knitting and antiques. Many of the images she works with date from the 1930s to 1980s, representing personal ancestry, collective histories, traditions, and loss.

Alexis is currently enrolled on MA Painting at The Royal College of Art. She was the overall winner of the Delphian Open in 2021 and recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2021. Her work is in collections across the world.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 25th June and continues until Saturday 23rd July 2022.