GILL ROTH: Ad Nauseam​

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22 January – 15 February 2025​

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Gill Roth’s works are bold and free expressions about her personal physical and mental state.

Her images include strong unrealistic colours and distorted exaggerated forms which lift you up and plunge you deep into her emotional psyche. Her use of abstract forms and dynamic brushwork allow her to explore a range of emotions, from rage and chaos to tranquillity and transcendence.

Rather than trying to accurately represent the world, Roth seeks to express her subjective inner emotions, fantasies and thoughts in her own exaggerated individualistic way. SM

 

Things don’t have to make sense.

Things don’t have to be in the ‘right’ place.

 

A hijacker in stripy knickers appears as a riotous, disruptive presence that defies boundaries. She is slippery. Made up of a hybrid of languages –gestural painterliness, hard line cartooning, naturalistic figuration and total abstraction.

 

Figures rise out of a process that is open ended, provisional and experimental, ghosts made of incidental marks, spillages and negative spaces.

 

The feeling of nausea swooshing through me.

Being in my body. Things falling apart. The body not working. Upside down, leaking, discombobulated and out of control. Everything is going wrong.

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