Anna Kenneally, Conviction, 2024

We are pleased to announce ANNA KENNEALLY'S limited edition release in support of CHOOSE LOVE

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Anna Kenneally’s quixotic figures are sequestered at the fringes of society. Evoking a Victorian Gothic melancholy, they radiate the aesthetics of darkness as they navigate uncharted surroundings like vagrants picking over decimated landscapes. Kenneally’s neo-romanticism favors subversive poses amongst erratic brushwork in order to highlight a disconnect and a warped relationship with the landscape.

Kenneally (born 1995 in London) is part of the new generation of painters whose practices render passé the battle between abstraction and figuration. For these artists, there is no merging of abstraction and figuration as they now exist side-by-side with knowing nonchalance; similarly, there is no merging of high and low culture references as all sources emerge on equal footing. Kenneally’s paintings combine the unknowable reverie of Henri Rousseau’s surrealist compositions, the chaos and conflict between the natural and the artificial at the heart of science fiction novels, the emphatic colorful gestures of The Brücke artists, the dramatic sonics of Dark Wave, and the intimate yet anxious tenor of her generation’s most inspired figuration.

The painter’s characters come alive through unpredictable brushwork that capture heat, energy, and moments of contact. Set against disquieting sceneries that sometimes appear post-apocalyptic and unhabitable, the figures are not fully defined or contained by clean linearity and instead rely on patches of color to give form to their bodies. At once her people, depicted at odd angles and in subversive poses, seem rooted in their locations while they also dislocate any sense of geographic specificity. Untethered and floating florae is sometimes depicted such that their form slips into bodily forms. Though the subjects of Kenneally’s compositions seem undaunted by this painterly intrusion, their reaction to being seen by the audience varies from being shocked, even horrified by the intrusion to other times when their eyes are closed or looking askance rendering the viewers as voyeurs.

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Choose Love does whatever it takes to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. They elevate the voices and visibility of refugees and galvanise public support for agile community organisations providing vital support to refugees along migration routes globally.

Choose Love has provided vital emergency aid and longer-term support to more than 5 million people across the world.

Choose Love is a registered UK Charity. No 1099682 and registered in the USA as a A 501(C)(3) charitable non profit. 

200 Euro provide:

13 hot meals The reality for lots of people living in refugee camps is spending hours in a queue for low-quality food rations or going hungry. With this they are providing a nutritious meal, or fresh produce to cook and share with their loved ones. £15 will typically provide food for a family for 3 days.

6 'Keep A Child safe' kits - Thousands of refugee children arrive, without their parents, in new countries every day. Our partners distribute these parcels containing things like a warm hoodie, writing materials, a toy like a football and a basic mobile phone to make sure that unaccompanied children have what they need, from shelter, clothes and food to education and mental health support.

2 Bundles Of Warmth Contents: blanket and sleeping bag: to stay warm at night. Hot Food: nutritious meals to nourish families and individuals. Heating fuel: to keep people warm in freezing temperatures. Waterproof tent and emergency housing: a place to sleep.

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Support CHOOSE LOVE by getting yourself a beautiful archival pigment print by Anna Kenneally:

Available from June 18 6pm BST

Please help us with this important cause. Thank you very much!