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Cob Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition of work by Tahnee Lonsdale: twelve oil paintings whose swooping angularity fuses an intimate sense of personal vulnerability with an awareness of emotional experience as a form of public rite. Ode and tonic to this year of upheaval, they mark a moment of our collective re-emergence.

Populated by forms that seem to be both discrete figures and abstract configurations of limbs, Lonsdale’s compositions emerge from a practice of intuitive sketch-making in response to particular emotional states. The self, turned outwards onto the canvas, …