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Parafin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Justin Mortimer, his third with the gallery. Mortimer is widely regarded as one of the leading painters working today and is an emblematic figure for a younger generation of artists.

Mortimer’s new work builds upon the ‘Hoax’ series exhibited at the Armory Show, New York, in 2018. In the ‘Hoax’ series Mortimer subverted and reimagined the genres of still life and flower painting, creating fragmented depictions of dead and dying flowers juxtaposed with fluidly abstract backgrounds (originally derived from the chromatic striations of …