Sarah Baker, Marilyn Hallam, Alison Jones, Irini Karayannopoulou, Andi Magenheimer, Hannah Murgatroyd, India Nielsen, Rebecca Parkin, Kate Street, Zoe Francis Spowage and Milly Thompson
The Satiric Grotesque brings together artists who use distortion, humour and bodily unease to make the human image slip. Across painting, collage, drawing and sculpture, faces become masks and identity becomes staged - comic, unsettling, excessive and sharply revealing.
New works on paper by Justin Mortimer - all available.
These pieces sit at the heart of Mortimer’s practice. Not studies, not afterthoughts - but works in which the image feels unusually raw, immediate and alive. Fragments of figure, surface noise, rubbed-out marks and pasted elements all held in a kind of suspended tension.
They have the same psychological unease and visual intelligence as the larger paintings, but with a freshness that belongs particularly well to paper. Beautiful in reproduction, but exceptionally good in the flesh.
Blackbird Rook and General Assembly present Alien Hand - Alison Blickle (Los Angeles) and Irini Karayannopoulou (Athens) - 6-21 March 2026, 12 Saint George Street W1S. Painting as possession: mythic bodies, glamour and unease, control and release. Studio as visitation.
Blackbird Rook presents Welded Rivers. 12 February - 14 March 2026. Landscapes as systems - channelled, resisted, remade across painting, drawing and ceramics. Featuring Laurie Cole, Jeff Dellow, Charlie Duck, Yoona Kwon and Holly Mills. Curated by Laurie Cole.
