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Lucy Whitehead - Intro

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Amy Beager - Intro

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Lucy Whitehead - Artistic Practice

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Lucy Whitehead - Studio

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Amy Beager - Artistic Practice

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Amy Beager - Studio

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Amy Beager: Island Sanctuary for Two

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Amy Beager: Can't Do Without You

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Amy Beager: Swoon

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Amy Beager: Come Take a Trip to My Wonderland

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Amy Beager: Lilac Wine

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Amy Beager: Pure Delight

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Lovers' Tiff

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Feature (I)

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Limbo

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Battleground (III)

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Battleground (II)

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Lucy. R Whitehead: Battleground (I)

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Pure Delight, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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Amy Beager – Studio

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Lucy Whitehead – Studio

Artist Practice

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Amy Beager – Artistic Practice

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Lucy Whitehead – Artistic Practice

Lovers’ Tiff, 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Pastel, and Charcoal on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Amy Beager

Amy Beager lives and works from her studio in Chelmsford, UK. Amy displayed in the Grove Collective exhibition Fragmented intimacy

Pure Delight, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Lilac Wine, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Come Take a Trip to My Wonderland, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 76 x 50.5 cm

Perfume, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100cm

Swoon, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic, Collage, and Oil on Canvas, 42 x 59 cm

Island Sanctuary for Two, 2020 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Can’t Do Without You, 2021 by Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Lucy Whitehead

1991, Liverpool, UK Lives and works in London.

Feature (ii), 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas, 40 x 60 cm

Feature (i), 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas 40 x 60

Lovers’ Tiff, 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Pastel, and Charcoal on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Limbo, 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Battleground (i), 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Battleground (ii), 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Battleground (iii), 2020 by Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Feature (ii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas, 40 x 60 cm

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Feature (ii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas, 40 x 60 cm

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Feature (i), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas 40 x 60

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Feature (i), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Pastel on Canvas 40 x 60

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Lovers’ Tiff, 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Pastel, and Charcoal on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

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Lovers’ Tiff, 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Pastel, and Charcoal on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

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Pure Delight, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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Pure Delight, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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Lilac Wine, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50 cm

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Lilac Wine, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50 cm

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Come Take a Trip to My Wonderland, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 76 x 50.5 cm

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Come Take a Trip to My Wonderland, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 76 x 50.5 cm

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Perfume, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100cm

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Perfume, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100cm

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Swoon, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic, Collage, and Oil on Canvas, 42 x 59 cm

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Swoon, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic, Collage, and Oil on Canvas, 42 x 59 cm

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Limbo, 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

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Limbo, 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas, 120 x 150 cm

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Battleground (i), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Battleground (i), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Battleground (ii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Battleground (ii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Island Sanctuary for Two, 2020 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 150 cm

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Island Sanctuary for Two, 2020 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 150 cm

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Battleground (iii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Battleground (iii), 2020 - Lucy Whitehead

Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

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Can’t Do Without You, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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Can’t Do Without You, 2021 - Amy Beager

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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About Exhibition

Grove Collective is pleased to present the upcoming group exhibition Fragmented Intimacy, featuring the UK-based artists Amy Beager and C. Lucy R. Whitehead, on view online in virtual reality through the Grove Collective website. This is the first time these artists have shown together, and marks the first time Grove Collective has worked with either of these artists.

While both of these artists’ practices vary greatly in their final iterations – C. Lucy R. Whitehead’s work largely trades in a frenetic abstraction, while Amy Beager’s artwork often luxuriates on classical forms – the themes that undergird much of their collective work bear much in common. The fragmentation of the bodily form, and the intimacies within which the body is necessarily interpolated, sits at the core of both artists’ output. The figural annihilation of abstraction in Whitehead’s work is paired with the magnification (or amputation) of body parts in Beager’s, but still more lingers: the emotional disjuncture present in many of Beager’s intimate scenes proves reminiscent of the uncertainty born out of Whitehead’s whirling lines or concentrated geometries.

Likewise, the body – its limitations, realities, and wonders – has consistently been an area of focus for co-curators Jacob Barnes and Morgane Wagner. A commonality to us all, the human body presents endless points for communal interrogation and reflection; its concerns remain, as always, our great equalizer. Yet, beyond a simple interest in the corporeal, this exhibition confronts a topic much more timely: as the public collectively continues to grapple with the pathologization of the body itself, Barnes and Wagner look to probe intimacy’s place in collective constriction. While much is made of an inability to live out otherwise normal social lives, Fragmented Intimacy draws to mind questions concerning constricted intimacy: does the discord presented here presage what is to soon to come, or instead act a reminder of what we will all soon consciously avoid?

Amy Beager

Amy Beager lives and works from her studio in Chelmsford, UK. She obtained a National Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction) in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Nottingham Trent University in 2010. Beager was selected as a winner for the Delphian Gallery Open Call 2020 and started exhibiting her work in London in 2019.  Her painting ‘The Blue Room’ is currently on display at Saatchi Gallery as part of the group exhibition ‘Antisocial Isolation’ curated by Delphian Gallery. Beager’s work has been acquired by Soho House and placed in multiple private collections throughout Europe, Australia, USA, Taiwan and Canada.

Lucy Whitehead

1991, Liverpool, UK Lives and works in London.

Grounded in the firm belief that the art world must reflect an increasingly globalized marketplace, Grove Collective was established as a means to actualize a collective conception of what the art world can become when it works to benefit increasingly exciting and active new markets, not only an established collectorship. In doing so, the gallery exhibits exciting work from around the world, easing bottlenecks that prevent artists from selling their work, and making art from a diverse range of practitioners available to an equally diverse collector base.

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