Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review

Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review

White Cube Mason’s Yard; Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Puzzling portraits mine the memory in Donna Huddleston’s stylised look at the 70s, while Liorah Tchiprout paints a cast of dolls inspired by women from Yiddish theatre

Two new shows by London-based artists tell stories, or imply backstories, through the art of painting. Both feature the same group of characters. And as so often in today’s contemporary art, these characters are all women.

The Irish Australian artist Donna Huddleston is best known for her pale and etiolated drawings of posing figures, occasionally sinister, cool to the point of chilly. To describe them as flat or linear would be an understatement. Meticulous in their airy pastel hues, they are as diagrammatic as an architect’s blueprints.

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