RIPE LIVE:
Papaya Salad / Lucas Console-Verma
Friday 27th June, 6pm – 10pm
Join us for the launch of two new exhibitions, Papaya Salad and Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma
🔶 Explore our most recent exhibition at the Alfred Arcade, Papaya Salad, a short-term residency project that aims to encourage artistic and professional development through a series of skill sharing workshops. For this third Papaya project, the Ripe Papayas, who exhibited at the Alfred Arcade last summer, have reconnected and developed both individual and collective outcomes, culminating in a group exhibition.
🎨 Preview a new exhibition at the Hidden Wardrobe, Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma. Lucas is a painter whose work explores the relationship between past and present through the language of painting. Drawing on the complexity of Old Master compositions and his own photographic material, he constructs imagined scenes that hover between memory, emotion, and abstraction. Using digital tools to manipulate imagery as part of his process, Lucas creates layered oil paintings where the figure flickers in and out of focus, and different visual worlds converge on the canvas.
“The exhibition will consist of two large-scale oil paintings made during my time in Dubai. Both works explore the idea of painting as a living surface — where form, memory, and environment emerge through layered mark-making.
Working from personal photographs gathered during my stay, the paintings evolve through a process of building and mending: abstract gestures laid down instinctively are gradually shaped into moments of form, echoing bodies. The act of painting becomes a way to overlap between different realms — between Old Master visual languages and contemporary experience.”
🎵 Music will be provided at the Alfred Arms by Southampton-based music collective, Address.
🥂 Drinks will be served at the Alfred Arcade and the Alfred Arms from 6pm – 10pm.
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