Anna Calleja, Tali Lennox, Sophie Ruigrok

Palazzo Monti, Brescia

Residency: November–December 2024 

Exhibition: 30 November 2024

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Palazzo Monti x The Great Women Artists 2024

An exhibition celebrating the artists' six-week residency at Palazzo Monti, curated by Katy Hessel.

 

Katy Hessel and Edoardo Monti are delighted to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper for The Great Women Artists V, the fifth iteration of our collaborative residency (2018–present), featuring Anna Calleja, Tali Lennox, and Sophie Ruigrok. 

 

Anna Calleja (b.1997) is a Maltese painter who captures the intimacy of the world around her. She paints with a translucency, overlaid with scratchy textures, that heightens everyday scenarios. Full of tension, mystery, her works give precedence to the often missed moments that we can have with ourselves or loved ones, as well as speak to historic narratives entrenched in art. 

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London-born, Paris-based painter, Tali Lennox (b.1993) creates paintings set in imaginary landscapes, with loose eyes, bows, pierced hearts and fragments of the body. Lennox's jewel-like works -that at times feel more like relics than paintings - bridge the ancient and the futuristic. Drenched in reds, whites, pinks and silver, they omit textures that range from watery to metallic, fleshy to misty; and present love, pain, tenderness, violence, sensuality, ritual, and more. 

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Sophie Ruigrok (b.1992) is a London based painter, hailed for her intimate studies of the body. The paintings Ruigrock has created for the residency pulsate with a warm-blooded energy. Unsure of where hands end and other limbs begin, the image becomes a coalescence of flesh with textures that teeter between stone and skin. "Bodyache" presents hands overlapping thighs, shins, knees or arms: and is a study of the human body from a lens of touch.​