Two new shows by London-based artists tell stories, or imply backstories, through the art of painting. Both feature the same group of characters. And as so often in today’s contemporary art, these characters are all women.
The Irish Australian artist Donna Huddleston is best known for her pale and etiolated drawings of posing figures, occasionally sinister, cool to the point of chilly. To describe them as flat or linear would be an understatement. Meticulous in their airy pastel hues, they are as diagrammatic as an architect’s blueprints.
