Exhibition Dates

27th September – 13th October 2024

Private view
Thursday 26^th September 2024
6 – 9pm

Tuesday – Saturday
1 – 6pm

CLOSED
Sunday / Monday

Anna Blom

Curator
Jenn Ellis

APSARA STUDIO

Anna Blom’s practice contemplates the diaristic, each piece acting as a response to her environment and emotional state at any given moment. Her semi-abstract paintings, which she describes as “observational portraits”, contain traces of her continuous research; an archival process of investigating how individuals connect, combine and construct themselves through collecting objects, matter, white noise and writing. Drawing on this material, the artist deconstructs the fragile details of daily life in each piece, allowing transient forms to allude to the physical and psychological components of her lived experience.

Her works also act as records of the environment in which they were created – Blom lays the unstretched canvas out in the open, exposed to the elements, and paints with raw pigment while allowing situational debris to fall upon the service. The resultant textured, gritty and matt surfaces speak to the moment they were created, reflecting seasonality, weather conditions and the artist’s shifting emotional landscape.

Deliberately ephemeral, her paintings tell personal stories and share fragments of a “painted philosophy”; a way of manifesting the complexity of human experience as an emotionally rich, transient and vulnerable state.

Anna Blom is Swedish, lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022), and a BFA in Painting from UAL, Wimbledon (2020). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including:

Vortic, London (2024)
Studio West, London (2024)
Flowers Gallery, London (2023)
Hautes Côtes, Apsara Studio and Sothebys, Burgundy (2023)
Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023)
OHSH Projects, London (2023)
Aora and Apsara Studio, London (2023)
Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2023)
Orleans House Gallery, London (2022)

www.bloominghell.com

@annabloominghell

Exploring states of transition, Anna Blom’s survey solo exhibition, ‘transference’, is a tender investigation of variance and what is consciously as well as subconsciously exchanged between people, places and the unobserved. Curated by Jenn Ellis, founder of Apsara Studio, ‘transference’ responds to contextual change and liminality, as well as the oscillations in oneself. Presenting new works, Blom’s survey exhibition explores how each piece articulates a poetic verbiage and takes on a diaristic methodology, responding to Blom’s environment and emotional state at any given moment. Her semi-abstract paintings, which she describes as “observational portraits”, contain traces of her continuous research; an archival process of investigating how individuals connect, combine and construct themselves through collecting objects, matter, white noise and writing. Drawing on this material, ‘transference’ provides a deconstruction of the fragile details of daily life, allowing transient forms to allude to the physical and psychological components of her and our lived experience.