exhibition

Tingle Tangle

Last chance to catch Roxana Halls, a feminist artist with a cult following for portraying a bitter-sweet theatrical world with hints of magical symbolism. In this show, there’s photography as well as painting, all brewed up in her secret studio in a bingo hall. One series shows women silently wrestling with their cabaret for control. In a strange excursion into grey war-time scenes, she paints a blitzkrieged city in which a woman in red is still laying a table. And get the canvases showing the backs of women’s heads yet still capturing character, while in another set they are naked with fantasy hairstyles. "These women are taking control by turning their back to you. This is anti-display", she told me. Brooding, intimate, slightly sinister- it’s powerful stuff…. / Herbert Wright