Thu 4 Jun to Sun 7 Jun, Tue 9 Jun to Sun 14 Jun, Tue 16 Jun to Sun 21 Jun
From 4 to 21 June 2026
Opening: Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 7pm
Exhibition and accompanying events all free entry/unticketed
In-conversation event with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, Frances Aviva Blane, Anna McNay, chaired by co-curator, Penny Woolcock: Tuesday 9 June at 7pm
Walking art talk with critic, Corinna Lotz - a short introduction to the works of Frances Aviva Blane: Saturday 6 June at 2pm and 3:30pm
Greatorex Street Gallery, 10 Greatorex Street, London E1 5NF
This June, London’s Greatorex Street Gallery will host Impossible, the first dedicated retrospective of work by British abstract expressionist painter, Frances Aviva Blane (b. 1958). This landmark exhibition, running from 4 to 21 June, is co-curated with the artist by filmmaker, opera director and screenwriter, Penny Woolcock (The Death of Klinghoffer, 1 Day) in close collaboration with long-standing supporter, writer and renowned psychoanalyst, Susie Orbach. Together this trio of trailblazing women will present an exhibition that unites abstract and figurative paintings and drawings - including new works - with short films and live discussion to invite audiences into the richly-hued, unforgettable world of Frances Aviva Blane.
On Saturday 6 June at 2pm and 3.30pm (Free entry), art critic Corinna Lotz will walk through the exhibition and give an introduction to the works of Frances Aviva Blane.
On Tuesday 9 June at 7pm, Susie Orbach will join Frances Aviva Blane and art critic, Anna McNay, for an in-conversation event chaired by filmmaker and exhibition co-curator, Penny Woolcock, exploring how interior worlds and psychic intensity find expression in Blane’s paintings.
Moving between the abstract and the figurative, Frances Aviva Blane’s work excavates personal themes of pain, trauma and interior worlds. Her paintings are imposing and uncompromising. She treats paint as a site of psychological tension and physical exertion, building restless, reworked surfaces where images emerge and dissolve. The Heads series, which includes portraits of Susie Orbach, subverts convention and turns familiar facial features into raw, distorted forms that expose intense, unstable glimpses of the psyche...
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