✖️IZZIE BEIRNE✖️
A solo exhibition hosted by Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery ‘By The Ruins I Often Pass’
A painted sunset glimpsed through a fogged window. A hazy bathroom sink. A butterfly trapped behind mouldy glass. A house on fire swallowed by night.
Izzie Beirne paints at scale. These works suggest gentle domestic calm, alongside a creeping sense of voyeurism and entrapment.
The exhibition title is drawn from Anne Bradshaw’s 1666 poem Upon The Burning of Our House, written in the aftermath of losing her home. Beirne pulls from historical and contemporary sources to build a language around grief, myth and the female body’s relationship to domestic space.
Although this exhibition opens from 30th May to 16th June, we will be holding a mid-point late opening event rather than a typical opening event.
Join us for drinks on 5th June 5.30 - 7.30pm
Big thanks to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery for their partnership on this event.
@izziebeirneart@aceagrams@blackburnmuseum@themooseyresidenc
✖️IZZIE BEIRNE✖️
A solo exhibition ‘By The Ruins I Often Pass.’
We are delighted to partner with Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery to show these works in their watercolour gallery.
Newcastle-born, London-based artist whose work often moves between cinematic manipulation, feminist themes and now, myth, nursery rhyme and the domestic uncanny. By The Ruins Often I Pass is her first museum solo. With a substantial number of new works created this year during The Moosey Residency, Izzie’s exhibition of new paintings promises quiet and chaos in the same frame.
Izzie Beirne (b.1996) completed her MFA at Goldsmiths (2023), was recipient of The Almacantar Award and has been shortlisted for several awards. Recent exhibitions include The Second Act London, Guts Gallery and Plan X, Milan.
Although this exhibition opens from 30th May to 16th June, we will be holding a mid-point late opening event rather than a typical opening event.
Join us for drinks on 5th June 5.30 - 7.30pm
@izziebeirneart@aceagrams@blackburnmuseum@themooseyresidency
✖️BY THE RUINS OFTEN I PASS✖️
Izzie Beirne’s first institutional exhibition opens at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery this May.
A new body of oil paintings navigating domesticity, fairytales and female rage through a melancholic lens. Moments of everyday softness set against entrapment and the burning down of the idea of home.
Opening event 5th June 5.30 - 7.30pm
Open 30th May - 16th June
Tues - Sat 11 - 4.45pm
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Museum St, Blackburn, BB1 7AJ
@izziebeirneart@blackburnmuseum
Untitled
Oil on canvas
122/122cm /2020
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Seven Pink Paintings was my second solo exhibition @prismcontemporary back in 2020. I created this work shortly after discovering that pink doesn’t technically exist as a colour, and became slightly obsessed with its elusive properties.
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@second_act_gallery #dannydavidsonpaintings #abstract #abstractpainting #abstraction #abstractart
✖️PEARL CLUTCHERS✖️
Following opening, Bransfield’s baby pink hellscape continues to unsettle and delight. Visitors discover tiny contaminations - Rees-Mogg asleep, Musk’s salute - haunting the candy-coloured surfaces.
Part of his sprawling ‘Populism’ project, these sketches and collages transform an unheard pop song into years of artistic exploration.
Open until 7th February 11-4pm Thurs - Sat
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
✖️WOODSY BRANSFIELD✖️
Pearl Clutchers in full swing - Bransfield's punky salon hang creates a hyperspace between teenage bedroom and political war room. Pink drones for little girls hover near nuclear warheads, pearl necklaces frame media atrocities. The personal and political collapse into each other through baby pink oil stick and stolen materials.
A desperately confused world of ice-cream politics and post-truth media, where NHS caring meets hypersexual excess.
Open until 7th February 11-4pm Thurs - Sat
@woodsybransfield
Photography | @velvia25@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
✖️OPENS TONIGHT✖️
Pearl Clutchers opens tonight 6-8pm
Woodsy Bransfield’s sickeningly sweet world of pop confection meets political unrest. Where judges’ wigs collide with nuclear warheads, dressed in saccharine pink - nothing is quite what it seems.
With walls hung like a process mood-board infected by current events, his new works on paper and steel lubricate the political-mood with bubble gum pop aesthetics.
Tonight at The Second Act gallery
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
Photo: @mike__massaro
✖️PEARL CLUTCHERS✖️
Opening this Friday from 6-8pm
Pearlescent surfaces meet political nightmares.
Baby pink PVC to machine-learning robot soldiers.
Kardashian aesthetics to NHS branding.
Woodsy Bransfield presents a sprawling punk meditation on power, pop and post-truth in Pearl Clutchers.
Join us Friday 23rd January 6-8pm at The Second Act
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
Photo: @mike__massaro
✖️PEARL CLUTCHERS✖️
Google image searches for pink plastic drones, pearl necklaces, judge’s wigs and perfect penises haunt Bransfield’s new works. Tiny images of Elon Musk’s fascist salute and Jacob Rees-Mogg asleep in parliament contaminate the baby pink surfaces.
Materials list as manifesto: stolen oil sticks, NHS Pantone 675 Caring Pinks, Uncle Robert’s brain scan, polaroids drunk on martinis, the gatekeeping of art practice, a desperate frustration, a miraculous recovery, a decision to keep living.
Opening Friday 23rd January 6-8pm
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
Photo: @mike__massaro
✖️WOODSY BRANSFIELD✖️
Presenting a solo exhibition by Woodsy Bransfield, an artist working in recordings, performance and video that collide with painting, drawing, collage and print in exponential webs of enigmatic information; his practice transforms lyrics into paintings, costumes into sculptures, nothing quite what it seems.
Recent exhibitions include Hoping at Neven (2023) Need (Sportswear Abstracts Volume I) at Palatial, London, 2022, The Chains that were Sold to me by an Algorithm, Palatial, London, 2022, Populism Live at Tate Britain, 2019. Woodsy is currently a Member of the Royal Academy Schools Class of 2028.
Join us for the opening of Pearl Clutchers on 23rd January 6-8pm
Open 24th January - 7th February 11-4pm Thurs - Sat
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
Photo: @mike__massaro
✖️PEARL CLUTCHERS✖️
Our next exhibition is a punky collision of pop aesthetics and political unrest by Woodsy Bransfield. Somewhere between a teenage fan’s bedroom and an eighteenth century boudoir, these new collages, screenprints and steel works sprawl across our walls salon-style.
Baby pink meets political hellscape. Bubblegum confection meets conservative politicians asleep in parliament. NHS caring pinks blend with Kardashian campaigns in this sickeningly sweet exploration of our post-truth media landscape.
Opening event Friday 23rd January 18:00 - 20:00
Open 24th January - 7th February 11-4pm Thurs - Sat Or by appointment on weekdays
@woodsybransfield@aceagrams
Brian Mercer Trust
Photo: @mike__massaro
✖️ XMAS WRAPPED UP ✖️
A week into December and you almost certainly have that one tricky person left on your Xmas shopping list.
The person who’s impossible to buy for.
The person you want to impress.
The person who’s flying home after the holidays with no space in their luggage.
With editions starting at £35, a click and buy online store and limited edition artworks touching on subjects from football to westerns, sent wrapped up in a light weight tube - The Second Act has got you covered.
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