Imogen Allen
Available Works
Biography
Imogen Allen is a painter whose work explores the energetic terrain of our conscious and subconscious experience through the physical language of colour, shape and gesture. Her paintings are luminous, meditative portals of reflection, which embrace the physicality of our earth as a pathway to the spiritual, transcendental experience.
Having grown up near Zennor, South West Cornwall, on the edge of a moorland of lichen blanketed standing stones and ethereal grasses, Allen sees the human relationship to wildness, as central to the architecture of our being. Her work is informed deeply by this profound connection to the voices of the natural world; the characteristics of plants, fungi and the elements constantly inform the direction of her paintings. Imogen intends each work to possess its own distinct personality and explore its own painterly terrain, like each organism within the ecosystem. The thread which unifies her work is something ineffable, but can be felt through characteristics of sensitive touch, vivid colour and shifting depth that permeate her canvases.
Allen’s work puts the organic experiential at it's forefront, commanding the physiological reflection of the viewer through the subtle push and pull between the definable and the non-definable. Her works offer questions, not answers, and instead of telling a narrative for us to unpick, they are intended as vessels from which we can feel from.
Exhibitions
Upcoming:
Solo exhibition July/August 24th, 2024 Penwith Society of Artists as recipient of ‘Young Penwith Artist of the Year’ 2024
Solo exhibition, The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, 2025
Current and Past:
‘I lost Something in the Hills’ Mixed exhibition, Lilya Art Gallery Putney, London 2024
‘Making Kin’ Mixed exhibition, Studio West Gallery London, 2024
Arc Salon Painswick, Open Call, Mixed Exhibition, Painswick, 2024
'Felt Cute, Might Delete Later,' Mixed Exhibition, The Arusha Gallery London, 2023
One Month residency: Kaaysa Art Residency, Boiçucanga, Sao Sabastio Brazil, 2023
‘Amphibian,’ Two Person exhibition with George Wilson of paintings exhibited alongside a rehearsed reading by Vida Adamczewski, with support from Hannah Barry Gallery, 2022.
‘On Reflections,’ Two Person exhibition with Merrick Adams, Curated by Altera Collective, Ernie Woolfe Gallery, Los Angeles California, 2022.
‘Feelings Beyond Words,’ Solo Exhibition, Appach Gallery, Brixton, London: 2021.
‘Every Woman Biennial,’ Copeland Gallery Peckham, London, 2021.
‘Circadian Rhythms,’ Online Solo showcase with Altera Collective: 2021.
‘Psychogeographies’ Two Man Alumni showcase, Camberwell College of Arts, London: 2021.
Artist Residency, Griffin Gallery, West London - 2018
The Ruth Borchard Prize Exhibition - Piano Nobile ,Kings Place - 2017
The Ruth Borchard Prize Exhibition - Piano Nobile ,Kings Place - 2017
Awards
Selected for the Freelands Foundation Painting Prize, 2020.
2nd Prize in The Exchange - Young People’s Art Prize - Titled ‘Identity.’ 2017.
The Ruth Borchard 2017 Self-Portraiture Prize - Shortlisted
National Open Art 2017 - Shortlisted