Mollie Balshaw, Painting Sandwich #7 & #5, 2019
Artist: Mollie Balshaw
Title: Painting Sandwich #7 & #5
Year: 2019
Medium: Paint on cardboard
Accession Number: US2022-12A,B
Acquisition info:
Painting in the expanded field, Balshaw’s work extends beyond the traditional bounds and restrictions of painting, exploring the painting as an ‘object rather than an image’. They consider the deconstruction and reconstruction of structures and surfaces, applying and manipulating thick brushes of brightly coloured paint on – and in between – layers of cardboard in abstract gestures.
Their work also considers the intertwined histories of gender and painting practice, where painting is ‘caught up in a push and pull between femininity and masculinity Identifying as non-binary, I find myself stuck in this whirlwind of tropes, questioning where a painter like me fits amongst the history of painting.’
