Pippa El-Kadhi Brown British - Iraqi, b. 1996
Lick the Sky , 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 180 cm
59 x 70 7/8 in
59 x 70 7/8 in
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Pale yellow, soft blue and pink establish a high-key ground from which loosely resolved forms emerge and recede, the composition held in a state of suspension. The scale invites full bodily immersion; the marks, gestural and unhurried, suggest breath rather than urgency. El-Kadhi Brown's title, Lick the Sky, carries a quality of unbounded appetite, the desire to reach beyond available space, and the painting holds that ambition in its expansive, unanchored field.1
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