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Feeling into the shape of another
A conversation between Tom Crawford and Ellie MacGarry

TC: I was wondering where we could start our conversation and realised we’ve spoken about the artist Mary Heilmann before, who I came to quite late. I love her paintings now and think about them often. I feel like Save the Last Dance For Me holds many of the tensions of push and pull that are present in our work. Also Neo Noir, the painting of brightly coloured rectangles, seen through a veil of dark prussian blue. That relates to a lot of your work, where we peek through layers of clothing or between …