A solo exhibition of Ehryn Torrell’s montage and textile works using a range of media, each of which is based on imagery sourced from VOGUE. Torrell’s use of fashion magazines as her source ‘montage material’ allows her to deconstruct images that primarily use the body to seduce and sell. Through this process, she destabilizes normative images of gender, race, sexuality, and class, commenting on consumerist culture and also drawing attention to their construction and materiality. The Canadian artist merges digital reproduction, textile, and embroidery to create works that each appears as a haptic visual cacophony, a sort of celebration that purposely subverts and belies their source material and meaning. Through the use of the hand-made, machine, and digital processes, Torrell’s work aims to slow the reading of images and call attention to the lesser-regarded aspects of their fabrication: how labour and material connect the viewer and artist in dialogue like a subliminal text that is overlooked when in their original state. The works include techniques like scanning, printing, textile printing, embroidery, and quilting. Torrell holds an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (Halifax, Canada), and is widely collected in public and private institutions.

The exhibition is part of the Summer Marathon Series, and due to the Covid-19 lockdown in London, it is viewable ONLINE at and by appointment via info@beerslondon.com