Art Auction - Arms Around the Child, Timed

24 OCTOBER 2022 - 13 NOVEMBER 2022
Sacred Land (2022)  Alison McKenna on Crete, 2022 by Yeshe McKenna
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33. Alison McKenna

Sacred Land (2021)

2021
Enamel and acrylic on Arches paper 
57 x 77cm
Unique
Framed
Signed
Donated by the artist and John Marchant Gallery

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£800 - 1,200

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Alison McKenna (Croydon, 1970) uses bold colour passages in sophisticated combinations to express energy, space, weight and movement in her paintings, often defining and anointing her work with a finishing touch in graphite. McKenna’s paintings, drawings and sculptures are consecrated actions she considers magical, and their creation as an initiation. Recent paintings have involved repeated visits to specific places - notably in Sussex and Andalucia - which she feels draw her in, enabling her to focus and ‘bring down’ the energy of the location.

 

 McKenna also has a particular interest in the esoteric history of the Feminine, from The White Goddess and Moon worship to the extraordinary power of the 30,000 women strong Embrace The Base action at the Greenham Common nuclear air base in 1982. She has worked at sites with specific historic resonance, like Greenham and the Waun Mawn neolithic site in the Preseli Mountains. Paintings are less renditions of form than expressions of locational energy, usually rendered in smooth enamel paints.

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