Estelle Simpson (b.2001)
In smooth, careful oils, Camberwell College of Art 2023 graduate Estelle Simpson (b.2001, Leeds, UK) invites you into an uncanny fictional world with figures that do not exist, replete with symbols and tinged with menace. Working from her studio in SET Woolwich, Estelle engages with a rich history of symbolist and surrealist painting whilst carving out her own unique voice within these paintings. She performs a deep reflection on the trespassings of the exterior world on the interior mind, and vice versa. It is the 'multiple narrative interpretations' which pull the viewer inexorably into the sphere of Estelle's paintings, as the mind seeks to make connections and form meanings within the shifting, duplicitous snapshots. Often invigorating everyday minutiae with theatrical elements, her practice continues to explore the staging of impressions of thoughts, feelings, struggles and pleasures. She hopes to draw attention to the subtle beauty of nature and the complexities of the feminine experience through realms which transcend the ordinary.
