As the first solo exhibition held in Ronchini’s new 21 Conduit Street space, Emilia Momen: Bathers presents a radical reframing of the long-standing art historical lineage of bathers, stretching from Titian and Cézanne to Matisse. Momen’s bathers draw out a space of their own, negotiating the rich boundaries between private and public, viewer and onlooker, ritual and play. Following her solo exhibition in 2023, this momentous presentation gathers ten new oil paintings made for this occasion, rendered with Momen’s newly emphatic painterliness. Together, they map a quintessentially British choreography of water and leisure: from Bexhill’s tranquil shorelines to Richmond’s Thames-side meadows, where city and pastoral meet, bathing unfolds as an egalitarian practice shared across both coastal retreat and metropolitan life.
A retrospective of Young Masters art prize winners from the past 16 years. ‘Freddie Foulkes’ on display a long side Yinka Shonibare.
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One year on with Emilia Momen
ROSIE LOWIT
“Tracey Emin following me on Instagram has to have been the highlight of my year!” painter Emilia Momen tells me as we sit down in her riverside studio. I first interviewed Emilia for Sleaze a year ago and we discussed the start of her career and being a young woman in the art world. Now twenty three, the artist speaks to me after being tipped as ‘one of the top 10 artists to invest in’ by Artelier Art Advisory.