Evangeline Turner
I love you with all my bowels.
27 September–8 November 2025
Opening: Friday 26 September, 6–8 pm
On four new canvases, Evangeline Turner paints the thrust of things.
1. The largest of them is Hospital Pass, a treatise in oils. Presided over by the Dr. Benway of paediatricians, it opens onto an imperial hall of mirrors suffering from a moderate case of hypostasis. Passages of chestnut, pale lilac, and gilt are sutured with wiry black lines. A chink of sky infiltrates the upper right; a putto stares out over the parapet; a rondel nearly skids across the picture. The image drips and leaks—a luminous gastric system—a melting tapestry of marks imbued with the deviance of Pierre Klossowski. 2. Birch possesses the slenderness of a silver birch tree, indeed, the geotropic drives of a living thing. Its lines worm around blindly as Turner feels out the incipient moment (the germination of the abstract?). A turpentine tributary becomes a feathery frond in the negative, sunken in the metallic heather air. 3. The oxidised figure of Vaulting backflips over the inverted bust of a Fanny Crosby impersonator, who hangs pendulously in the balance. She’s woven with burnished gold, Viennese opulence, …vertigo. 4. Ombudsman, the coda, is shown in the exterior vitrine. The Regency figure looks ashen-faced, her head askew, her neckerchief swirled in a gust of wind.
“These paintings aren’t trying to scare, dramatise or inflict pain. They are honest, difficult and on the edge,” says Turner.
Evangeline Turner (b. 1996, London) is a painter and performs with David Wrench as Audiobooks. I love you with all my bowels. is her second solo exhibition at a. SQUIRE and follows a solo presentation at Liste Art Fair Basel in June. Recent exhibitions include Ghost, Jarvis Art, New York (2025); the 12th House, The White Ermine, Düsseldorf (2025); Hard Scent Salon, Staldgade 11, Copenhagen (2024); Civil Twilight, Ginny on Frederick, London (2022); and What is it Like to be a Bat, ADZ, Lisbon (2022).
