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Josh Lilley is proud to present True Stories, British painter Tom Anholt’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Anholt’s figurative paintings variously evoke Persian miniatures; the shallow depth of field and iconography of Quattrocento painting; tapestries and textiles; and the unbound painterly explorations of Modernism. Formally, Anholt thinks of narrative in cinematic terms, employing cuts, zooms, pans and montage. At times created literally in patchwork with applied areas of canvas, Anholt’s work calls to the gauziness of a dream and a collided collective memory that reaches across culture …