“The Last Night On Earth” & other stories Exhibition
“The Last Night On Earth” & other stories Exhibition by Lily Hargreaves
In her work, Hargreaves explores the roles of the trope, symbolism and the meta in storytelling. As a result, her work produces cartoonishly surreal depictions of an imagined narrative, set in a time that feels nostalgic and familiar but has never really existed.
In her latest installation,‘The last day on earth‘, Lily Hargreaves uses painting, drawing and sculpture to create a high point within her ongoing narrative of a fictional world that plays with its surrounding space as one separate from reality.Fragment-like, each canvas reveals another detail of the storyboard. Self-contained stories create her overarching fictional world that plays with the given (gallery) space in a captivating cinematic quality. The exhibition comprises three most recent scenes of her ongoing tale:‘The Makeover’,‘Elsie’s Funeral’, and‘The last Day on Earth orThe Party at Willowfield Manor’.
We are delighted to be offering a large selection of 160 excellent works by Lily Hargreaves in our Event Gallery at 67 York Street Gallery.