‘Accordian Fields’ at Lisson Gallery looks at painting linked to London, bringing together artists who trained in the city, live here or are genuine born Londoners. The show seeks to highlight London’s reputation for artistic excellence and inspiration, somewhere people come to discover their potential, then take it elsewhere or stay and add to the fabric of the city. London has many personalities and many parts, a sprawl of little villages containing myriad identities that can offer anonymity or familiarity.
This isn’t a show about surface parallels, but rather about how the soul of a city permeates the work made in it, and how that manifests in paint by artists Varda Caivano, Sarah Cunningham, Dexter Dalwood, Pam Evelyn, Andrew Pierre Hart, Elinor Stanley, Tim Stoner and Joseph Yaeger.
