Together We Fall Apart
C. Lucy R. Whitehead
30 May - 28 June 2025
Opening Friday 30 May, 6-8pm
For the fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend, Trafalgar Avenue presents Together We Fall Apart, a solo exhibition by C. Lucy R. Whitehead
The exhibition centres upon process and recent developments in Lucy’s approach to painting. It marks a new direction in her practice and privileges experimentation, foregrounding not so much the medium of painting but the means by which and the modes in which it is made.
Anatomical drawing is the foundation of Lucy’s practice and for several years the body has been her primary subject. Whilst that remains, her source material has evolved from flattened manipulated digital images to sculptural physical forms. In 2024, Lucy was awarded an Arts Council England grant to develop sculptures in bronze. The maquettes for the bronze works have become the inspiration for her drawings and paintings, still directly referencing the undulating forms of the body, but further removed from the source.
Building upon that experience Lucy has begun to explore the possibilities of these forms in clay, pushing the scale and ambition of the sculptural side of her practice. These ceramic sculptures will be shown in dialogue with new drawings and paintings in a solo presentation at Trafalgar Avenue, showcasing the breadth and depth of Lucy’s practice, from nascent ideas to resolved works.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Emma Cousin.
C. Lucy R. Whitehead (b. 1991, Liverpool, UK) is a London-based artist. She holds a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, where she was awarded the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship. Whitehead's work has been exhibited internationally, including Tabula Rasa in Beijing, Biscuit Gallery in Tokyo and Berntson Bhattacharjee in London, with a recent solo exhibition at Soho Revue in London. This year she is showing at NADA in New York with Megan Mulrooney Gallery, who will also be showcasing Whitehead’s first U.S. solo presentation in Los Angeles this Summer.