{"id":41945,"date":"2018-10-22T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=41945"},"modified":"2018-10-22T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:00:43","slug":"cardiff-artists-first-solo-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2018\/10\/22\/cardiff-artists-first-solo-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff artist&#8217;s first solo exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Zena Blackwell explores the anxieties of motherhood in a new exhibition at Cardiff MADE<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-42014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Seen-not-Heard-image-1-1-240x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"412\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Seen-not-Heard-image-1-1-240x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"412\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cardiff-based artist Zena Blackwell, winner of the 2017 MADE Summer Art Prize opens a new exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/uncategorized\/m-a-d-e-hosts-gig-to-promote-welsh-talent\">Cardiff MADE gallery<\/a>\u00a0this Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Zena\u2019s first solo exhibition <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seen Not Heard,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0her oil paintings explores what it means to be a mother, drawing inspiration from her own role as a parent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Her paintings portray the innocence of childhood through the mother\u2019s eye. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet this innocence is not romanticised. Zena\u2019s paintings create a heightened reality in which the vulnerability of the child is at odds with a threatening adult world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI love the beautiful way in which they are completely unselfconscious,\u201d said Zena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe experience of adulthood informs our interpretation of a scene. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something totally innocent can connote something sinister or malevolent. Sometimes this manifests quite unconsciously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zena\u2019s work delves into the uncanny through her bold contrast of bright colours and flattened textures with realistic forms to express the dreamlike world of the parent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anxiety and sleep deprivation go hand in hand with the joy and love which the role brings.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-42009\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Untitled-self-portrait-241x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42009\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Untitled-self-portrait-241x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" \/><\/noscript> Images provided by Zena Blackwell<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gallery co-director and fellow artist Zoe Gingell said: \u201cI was delighted because they\u2019re amazing, powerful paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cZena\u2019s work stood out for me as somebody who\u2019s making work about the subject of parenthood, which is unusual in itself to see that represented in painting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not an area that\u2019s not particularly shown and there\u2019s a mass of work out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alongside the exhibition, Zena Blackwell will also talk in the MADE gallery on the 17 November,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0alongside fellow artists, academics and curators as part of the\u00a0day-long symposium <i>Maternal Attitude.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The symposium will explore how parent-artists make work, and their potential to transform the art world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/maternal-attitude-symposium-tickets-51200410807\">Tickets<\/a> are currently available from Eventbrite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Seen Not Heard\u2019 is open at the Cardiff MADE gallery from the 27 October until the 23 November.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zena Blackwell\u2019s art explores the anxieties of motherhood in a new exhibition at Cardiff MADE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":42634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[180,722,203,4185,264,1020,2378,6253,6254],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-41945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-home","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-made","tag-culture-2","tag-exhibition","tag-painting","tag-symposium","tag-zena-blackwell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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