PRESS RELEASE
EMALIE BINGHAM | Solo Exhibition
Nov 12 – Dec 12, 2026
EMALIE BINGHAM | Solo Exhibition
12 November - 12 December 2026
Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings by Emalie Bingham, a South African artist who currently lives in Bristol, UK.
Bingham collects, deconstructs, and redesigns marks as symbols, developing a system of abstract signs through form, material, and process. This visual alphabet consists of intentional, repetitive explorations of personally significant objects as well as collage offcuts and incidental brush strokes. The compositions impose a ‘visual dyslexia’, requiring imaginative readings, and so what each mark represents will depend on interpretation.
Playfully juxtaposing, layering, and collaging marks as repeating motifs, Bingham explores countless possible outcomes. This improvised act of deconstructing and re-patterning of recurring forms is inextricable from the concepts represented by each mark and the evolving design. For the artist, the abstract designs that emerge pose questions and conversations about notions of framing, visibility, belonging, transition, chaos, deviance, and perception.
In her catalogue essay for a group exhibition held at Everard Read London in 2020, writer and filmmaker Hazel Freidman noted that “The pace of history is amped up to the speed of life in Emalie Bingham’s edgy, hand-drawn abstractions. Her canvases spill over with cryptographic scribbles, and jittery lines, their shapes morphing into mitochondria and nerve endings, evoking both a sensory and semantic network of narratives. They suggest the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, whether through the matrices of botany, biology or geology. And the immediacy of their edgy, energetic brushstrokes harks back to Abstract Expressionism.”*
This is Bingham’s first solo exhibition with the London gallery.
*Hazel Friedman, February 2020
