Animalia

Animalia is presented by ARC Padstow, an exhibition that investigates through artistic representation the unique relationship and response between humans and animals. Animalia brings together the work of contemporary artists Naomi Boiko Stapleton, Camilla Dilshat, Ranny Macdonald, Salvo Pione, Paula Turmina and Phoebe Mash and Minna Williams in collaboration.

The exhibition demonstrates different artists interpretations and responses to animals from Naomi Boiko Stapleton’s intimate and gentle watercolour paintings on cotton, often showing a cropped image and never fully allowing the viewer to understand or into the moment of representation. To Ranny Macdonald’s painting Nothin’s goin’ right (II) depicting a pet on the London Underground creating a humorous moment through distortion of the image in the reflection of the tube window. Etchings by Phoebe Mash and Minna Williams is the first artist collaborative series ARC has exhibited. Their works create a unique insight into the way two practices can come together to depict an altered realm.

Animalia invites the visitors to reflect on their own relationship with animals whilst viewing the artist's unique representation of their own personal connection.

Animalia Catalogue