Marianna Simnett

Charades Paintings, 2025

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The series of oil paintings depict strange rituals and imagined universes, referencing myth, sci-fi, performance art, and sadomasochism. Flayed horses, endometriotic uteruses, banquets, dying swans, queens, masks, babies, feasts, bestiality, and rabid dogs are some of the vivid images in this theatrical world.

Scored, 2025, Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 x 5 cm

Groomed, 2025, Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 x 5 cm

Caked, 2025, Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 x 5 cm