Marie Le Lievre, Net Let installation view – front gallery. Photo: Vicki Piper
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Marie Le Lievre, Net Let ‘grid’ works, 2023, 1370 x 1370mm each. Photo: Vicki Piper
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Marie Le Lievre, Stacked Lets (Tomes), 2022, 1670 x 1830mm. Photo: John Collie
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Marie Le Lievre, Cookie Monster’s (Tray), 2022, 1670 x 1830mm. Photo: John Collie
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Marie Le Lievre, Telling (Tomes), 2023, 1200 x 1200mm. Photo: John Collie
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It has been more than two years since Marie Le Lievre presented a solo project at Jonathan Smart Gallery, so we are delighted to have her show Net Let occupying both gallery spaces from 3 March – 1 April, 2023.
A suite of new works, for the first time organized around a loose grid scratched into oil paint, form the basis of this exhibition. The mark-making, indeed the incisions, still feel intuitive, as does Le Lievre’s consistent and almost forensic pouring of oil paint.
A marvellous group of paintings on paper complement the bigger canvases. In these, Le Lievre’s touch with graphite drawn over duck-egg blue acrylic, suggests items of mystery assembled with both gay abandon and a slightly darker intent.
It has been more than two years since Marie Le Lievre presented a solo project at Jonathan Smart Gallery, so we are delighted to have her show Net Let occupying both gallery spaces from 3 March – 1 April, 2023.
A suite of new works, for the first time organized around a loose grid scratched into oil paint, form the basis of this exhibition. The mark-making, indeed the incisions, still feel intuitive, as does Le Lievre’s consistent and almost forensic pouring of oil paint.
A marvellous group of paintings on paper complement the bigger canvases. In these, Le Lievre’s touch with graphite drawn over duck-egg blue acrylic, suggests items of mystery assembled with both gay abandon and a slightly darker intent.
