MIASA
WASPS STUDIOS - SOUTH BLOCK, GLASGOW, 2022
Within her first solo show, ‘MIASMA’,
Absalom explores the idea of a climate apocalypse .Absalom intertwines A chronic fear of environmental doom with the fatalistic dogma of religious
writings.
Symbolism and iconography from Medieval and Renaissance painting is
transmogrified into a style lending from classical science-fiction to merge
together the ancient, and the yet-to-come.
FEATURED WORKS: /ONLY SALT AND SULPHUR LEFT IN PERGAMUM / , / FALSE IDOLS IN ARABAH / , / THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH / , / RUBLEV'S TRINITY / , / WHATEVER IS TRUE, WHATEVER IS PURE, WHATEVER IS LOVELY / , / IN A DRY AND WEARY LAND, WHERE THERE IS NO WATER / , / NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH / , / THE PALE HORSE OF DEATH / , / THE WHITE HORSE OF PESTILENCE /, / MAL'ACK /.
OPEN CUT - WUNDERKAMMER PROJECT
TRANSMISSION, GLASGOW, 2021
A group show as part of an international project spanning Glasgow, London, Phuket Stockholm and Seoul.
/ flesh wound, holy ghost / - oil painting on stretched canvas, 750 x 920 mm
Altar installation, wood, roughly 800 x 2000 mm
plaster cast hand with oil painting deocration and beading.
Curated by Aeji Seo and Robert McCormack. Photos by Alan McAteer.
THE ALTERNATIVE DEGREE SHOW
THE BRIGGAIT, GLASGOW, 2021.
OIL PAINTINGS ON STRETCHED CANVAS, 1500 X 1800 MM
/ ONLY SALT AND SULPHUR LEFT IN PERGAMUM / , /GOD DOESN'T WHISPER HE SCREAMS / , / THE FORCED FRUITS OF TIPHSAH /
THE PIECES ARE IN FLUX
SALT SPACE, GLASGOW, 2020
SIX FOOT GALLERY
PENtAGON CENRE, GLASGOW, 2020
OIL PAINTING ON STRETCHED CANVAS, 1870 X 610 MM
/ MASS REQUIEM / - AN INVESTIGATION OF HORROR TROPES TO THE SCALE OF A CINEMA SCREEN
ACROSS THE SEA
NEW GLASGOW SOCIETY, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOMDEKALB GALLERY, NEW YORK, USA, 2019
AN EXCHANGE EXHIBITION BETWEEN THE FOURTH YEAR PAINTING & PRINTMAKING STUDENTS OF THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART AND THE EQUIVALENT STUDENTS AT THE PRATT INSTITUTE, NEW YORK. THE PENCIL AND CHAROCOAL DRAWING, RIGHTS OF A GODHEAD, WAS EXHIBITED AT THE DEKALB GALLERY, NEw york. the oil paintings bad dog and red room were exhibited at the new glasgow society.
SOUP
GLUE FACTORY, GLASGOW, 2019
FEATURING THE WORK OF OVER 60 ARTISTS, CROSSING A MULTITUDE OF DISCIPLINES, INCLUDING FILM WORK, INSTALLATION, ANIMATION, PAINTING, DRAWING AND PRINTMAKING.
THE ARTWORK EXHIBITED BY ABSALOM COMPRISED OF A DIPTYCH PIECE: TWO 1x1m OIL PAINTINGS ON FOUND WOOD. THE PAINTINGS ARE REIMAGININGS OF AN ELIZABETH I AND a PAPAL PORTRAIT, EMPHASISING THE GROTESQUE ELEMENTS OFTEN UNDERLYING IN ICONOGRAPHIC AND REGAL PORTRAITS. AT THE TIME, THE ARTIST WAS INVESTIGATING IDEAS OF CULT VISION, RELIGIOUS HEGEMONY AND THE SYMBOLIC PERFORMATIVITY OF DOGMATIC HAND GESTURES WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND THEIR DIFFERING MEANING WITHIN ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS.
TRUST IN LANSLATION
BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, 2018
A GROUP EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY 15 FINE ART STUDENTS, STUDYING AT THE BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, ISRAEL, AS PART OF A STUDY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME.
THE PROCESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTWORKS WAS VITAL TO THE OUTCOME OF THE EXHIBITION, AS EACH ARTIST PRODUCED A PRELIMINARY IDEA FOR AN ARTWORK, WHICH, BY PROCESS OF RANDOM SELECTION, WAS PASSED ON TO ANOTHER ARTIST TO WORK INTO OR CREATE SOMETHING INSPIRED BY, FOR THE PERIOD OF ROUGHLY A MONTH.
'UNTITLED SELF PORTRAIT' - CHARCOAL AND SUGAR WATER ON FOUND WOOD, 'UNTITLED DRAWING' - COLOURED PENCIL ON A4 BRISTOL PAPER, 'UNTITLED COLLAGE', VARIOUS PAPERS WITH CHARCOAL, WHITE PENCIL, AND ACRYLIC PAINT.
invisible threads are the strongest ties
ross studios, glasgow, 2018
A GROUP EXHIBITION DISPLAYING WORKS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES OF PAINTING, PRINTMAKING, COLLAGE, AND SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION, DISCUSSING THE COMMON THEMES OF FOLKLORE, MYSTICISM, TRADITION, AND FEMININITY.AT THE TIME, ABSALOM WAS INVESTIGATING THE JEWISH CHARACTER OF LILITH, THE ORIGINAL, AND NON-SUBSERVIENT WIFE OF ADAM, AND HER ROLE WITHIN BOTH A THEOLOGICAL, AND POST-FEMINIST CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT.THE RESULTING WORK EXHIBITED BY THE ARTIST WAS: 'GENESIS', LITHOGRAPH ON A3 SOMERSET PAPER, AND 'A LILITH OF SORTS', OIL PAINTING ON PRIMED CANVAS BOARD.
