Kaye Donachie: Silent as Glass

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Published March 2018​

Credit: Copyright Kaye Donachie, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

Celebrating inspirations such as Katrine Mansfield and Iris Tree, and with a foreword by poet Rena Rosenwasser, ‘Silent As Glass’ is a delicate display of femininity and form. A temperate collection of eight works, four portraits and four abstracts and still lives, Kaye Donachie’s sixth solo exhibition at Maureen Paley in Bethnal Green features contemplative blue and pink hues, downcast eyes and landscapes in which bodies blend with their surroundings. The references to Mansfield and Tree reflect a fascination with the modernist figure of the female outsider, the muse who is shrouded in a cloud of sexual fluidity, freedom and withering or inaccessible beauty. Reminiscent of fragility, distance and elusiveness, the title ‘Silent As Glass’ seems both critical and celebratory. Continue reading...