Unfolding through layers of impasto, Megan Baker’s oil paintings suggest an ever-changing state of being, where fragmented and gestural figures are continually interrupted by the immediacy of the paint.
Megan Baker's works explore moments of stillness within nature, capturing a feeling of comfort in solitude where the vastness of landscape makes us conscious of our contained state as human beings. Unfolding through layers of impasto, Megan Baker's oil paintings suggest an ever-changing state of being, where fragmented and gestural figures are continually interrupted by the immediacy of the paint. Focusing on the physicality of the medium itself, Baker's practice is centred on the way time can be experienced through painting, for the perception of time shifts and evolves as one is absorbed by the search and discovery of the next hidden detail.
Baker appears in international private collections across the UK, USA, Europe and Qatar. Born in the UK (1996), Baker graduated from the prominent school Central Saint Martins in 2018, when she received the Kate Barton Painting Award and the Cass Art Prize. In 2023, the artist was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize. Between 2022 and 2023, the artist was exhibited at Eye of the Collector art fair in collaboration with Christie's Auction House, was part of the international show 'Homecoming' at Sharon Golan Art Projects in Tel Aviv, and took part in multiple group exhibitions. Baker's most recent solo exhibition at GJG in November 2023 focused on Titian's painting of 'Bacchus and Ariadne' (1520-23) as a point of reference for the exploration of temporality in art history.
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Artsy Foundations Fair 2024
23 Jan - 12 Feb 2024Foundations is a seasonal online fair curated by Arsty, spotlighting fresh works from tastemaking galleries that discover and nurture rising artists. This year's fair includes presentations from 130+ galleries in...Read more -
I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind
Megan Baker 5 Oct - 11 Nov 2023In ‘I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind’, Baker looks back on the Old Masters. Specifically, the artist uses Titian’s ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ (1520-23) as a...Read more -
Beyond Figuration: Then and Now
Group Exhibition 4 May - 3 Jun 2023The canon of art history often refers to the abandonment of imitative practices as having roots in the Romantic period. This period saw the initial disruptions of representation over imagination....Read more -
Where The Ground Meets the Sky
Megan Baker 8 Sep - 1 Oct 2022'Where the Ground Meets the Sky' explores moments of stillness within nature, capturing a feeling of comfort in solitude where the vastness of landscape makes us conscious of our contained...Read more
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'I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind' October-November 2023, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
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'I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind' October-November 2023, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
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'Where the Ground Meets the Sky', September - October 2022, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
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'Where the Ground Meets the Sky', September - October 2022, Gillian Jason Gallery, London