Lyndsey Ingram is delighted to present Silk on Stone on Lace on Flesh, an exhibition of new paintings by Dani Trew. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Bringing together large-scale panel paintings and smaller, more intimate works, the exhibition explores the female experience through an interplay of fabric, texture and diverse historical references. Often depicted from the neck down or deliberately cropped, Trew’s subjects are adorned in contemporary and historical high fashion. Through intricate details and hidden motifs, she weaves together seemingly disparate visual references, allowing unexpected narratives to emerge.
As an artist who relies on both research and intuition to explore the possibilities of perception, Trew often employs the illusions of trompe l’oeil – which translates as ‘trick the eye’. Seen as a literal and spiritual ‘portal to the divine’ during the Counter-Reformation and Baroque eras, it delights in the slippage between appearance and reality...
...As with every one of the paintings in this rich body of work, the vagaries of time, materials, personal and cultural histories – and the objects and designs and images that, in their various ways, contain or embody them – weave in and out of one another. Threads are followed, re-spun, discarded, begun again. As ever, this is how new images come to life.
- Extracts from Jennifer Higgie, Silk on Stone on Lace on Flesh: Dani Trew’s recent work, 2026.