Mary Evans
Overview
Please Do Not Bend 16, 2015 - Ongoing
Using brown paper as her main material, Mary Evans' evocative site-specific installations reflect on the impact of tragic and brutal moments in history. Her cut-out silhouettes build on the classical tradition of portraiture to question ideas around representation, cultural change and globalisation.
Evans studied at Goldsmiths and the Rijksakademie and has been a recipient of the Arts and Literary Arts Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC, USA. Recent exhibitions include Mary Evans: ‘GILT’, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (Solo - 2023); Saints and Saviours, offiste show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (Solo - 2021); La Banque, France (2020), the 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Brazil (2018), EVA - Ireland's Biennial (2016), Southbank Centre, London (2014), Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2013), University of Massachusetts (2013), and Meditations, her solo exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art (2008).
Evans studied at Goldsmiths and the Rijksakademie and has been a recipient of the Arts and Literary Arts Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC, USA. Recent exhibitions include Mary Evans: ‘GILT’, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (Solo - 2023); Saints and Saviours, offiste show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (Solo - 2021); La Banque, France (2020), the 11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Brazil (2018), EVA - Ireland's Biennial (2016), Southbank Centre, London (2014), Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2013), University of Massachusetts (2013), and Meditations, her solo exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art (2008).
Works
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Cape Town Willow Pattern 19, 2022 -
Cape Town Willow Pattern 2, 2022
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Cape Town Vignette, Cape of Good Hope, 2015 - Ongoing
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Please Do Not Bend 16, 2015 - Ongoing
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Please Do Not Bend 27, 2015 - Ongoing
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Mirror Image Blue Black, 2013
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Willow Plate No.14, 2012
Press
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Mary Evans Named Director of The Slade School of Fine Art
Art Forum, August 9, 2023 -
Artist Mary Evans to be first Black director of London's Slade art school
Chinma Johnson-Nwosu, The Art Newspaper, August 8, 2023 -
Artists currently exhibiting at Cape Town’s Zeitz MOCAA
Sarah Du Toit, Cape Town Etc, April 2, 2023 -
A Powerful Group Exhibition At Gagosian London Considers Postcolonial Black Identity
Nargess Banks, Forbes, March 31, 2023 -
Rites Of Passage, Curated by Péjú Oshin, To Open At Gagosian Britannia Street
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, March 3, 2023 -
Michaela Yearwood-Dan meets Mary Evans: 'I’ve been racially discriminated against at shows I’ve been in!'
Micha Frazer-Carroll, The Guardian, June 25, 2020