Dark menace and simmering sexuality

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Still studying painting at Central Saint Martins, Adam Ralph brings solid structures aggressively out of simple pen lines. He makes forms that bulge uncomfortably, pregnant with a dark menace and a simmering sexuality.

His drawing Grey Sigh is currently on display at The London Arts Board, a disused municipal notice board on the corner of Peckham Road and Vestry Road, Camberwell.It is now a gallery dedicated to giving emerging artists the chance to have a solo exhibition in London.

This is open and free to view, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until 14 September

Ralph says of his drawings:

Using abstract forms I’m trying to create my own wholly coherent visual language and create tight, controlled drawings with an element of chance or randomness. 
I’ve read a lot about gardening these last few weeks. Looking at the way in which people cultivate gardens has proved an interesting parallel to the nature of control in my work – a constant struggle to make perfectly-controlled wildness.”

London Arts Board
Corner of Peckham Road and Vestry Road, Camberwell, London SE5

24 hours a day, seven days a week
Free

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