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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Dropping the Guru, an exhibition of new paintings by emerging artists Stefanie Heinze, Ana Prata and David Roeder. Running from 11 March to 9 April 2016, the show will look at each of the artist’s use of figurative elements in order to negotiate and explore abstraction in their work.

Stefanie Heinze’s paintings capture hallucinatory scenes in which corporeal forms bleed into one another; interlocking fingers, heel-clad feet and elephant trunks converge in unexpected conglomerations before dissolving into lush, fleshy brushstrokes. Translating …