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Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present Billboards and Talismans, British artist Bethany Hadfield’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, opening in our Swallow Street gallery in May, Hadfield has created nine large-scale paintings that continue the artist’s exploration of the porous boundary between the digital and the physical.

Text as motif acts as a fixed position for this body of work; both the exhibition’s eponymous objects - billboards and talismans – are characterised by a tension between the meaning and visual form of the text they contain. Hadfield considers …