09/05/15
Interview: Roxana Halls
Roxana Halls: Unknown Women
Hay
Hill Gallery
5-30 May 2015
Fifteen years ago, painter Roxana
Halls (born 1974) walked into a disused theatre – now a bingo hall – in
Streatham, south west London, and asked if they had a space in which she could
make her studio. She was in luck and moved in to the old Bavarian Buffet at the
top of the building. A little later, she upgraded to the Saloon Bar, where she
still works today, surrounded by her collections of costumes and acquired
theatrical paraphernalia. There is a strong element of performance in her work
– and not just in the more explicit Cabaret series, or Roxana Hall’s Tingle-Tangle,
which she produced for the National Theatre. Her paintings depict women,
usually in some borderland, some liminal zone
– balancing, juggling, or, in her latest series, Unknown Women, about to be
shown at Hay Hill Gallery, London, with their faces concealed.
To read this interview, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/roxana-halls-interview-unknown-women