imagine, two wild seas
Alexandra Charlotte Pullen
2 – 27 July 2025
Private View: Thursday 5.30 – 8pm. RSVP to gallery
Meet the Artist/ Talk/Q & A: Saturday 26 July 2025 at 2.30pm. All welcome, just turn up!
A body of work within which floats the unyielding desire for authentic existence and expression through intense figurative drawing, painting, photography, and text: a seeking of connection, naked and kind, in turbulent seas.
‘imagine, two wild seas’ draws together intense, intricate ink drawings, texts, almost-poems, photography, and paintings in a space that aims to engender a gentle but steadfast resistance to the erasure of the real and the different.
The creation of the work has been in a sea at times dappled with light and clarity, but more often turbulent, black, and dirty. This exhibition attempts to see and reconcile this struggle, mirrored in making art and in the act of living.
The navigation of vastly complex and unpredictable turns of the current lives somewhere within the work, which at the heart, is a repeated, slow, exhausting pursuit of authenticity, and a fight for compassion.
The work returns again and again to the body and the sea, like a sunflower being drawn towards the sun: both the human form and the water as carriages of languages, of bodily experience.
The idea of language in touch, in forms nuanced and very delicate, of mutual communication, the leaning to another in tenderness, the act of listening outside of the limitations of verbal and written language, bleeds in and out of the work.
The exhibition has been conceived and brought into existence during a liminal and volatile period of time. It has ultimately revealed life and art not as parallels at all, but as one and the same.
About Alexandra Pullen
Alexandra Charlotte Pullen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work swims in a range of forms and media, all of which seek to touch, to somehow get closer to, a true expression of the experience of existing: one that is beyond the limitations of the languages and walls built around us.
Within highly detailed work, she grapples with an entwined, knotted forest of ideas including the body, sex and sexuality, and the fight for autonomy and human kindness in a world that profits from, and encourages selfishness and conformity.
After studying at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford (2011 – 2014), she went on to achieve a master’s degree in Print at the Royal College of Art in 2019.
Her first solo exhibition, ‘her body, almost you’, was held at One Paved Court in the summer of 2023, and she has had a number of subsequent solo shows across London.
Her work is held in the print collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ashmolean Museum, and she has exhibited work in the Tate Modern, and Tate Liverpool.
She currently lives and works in London.
