LON Gallery is thrilled to present Untitled, an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by Kate Ellis, her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, on view between 29 May and 22 June.

Over the past three decades, Kate Ellis has built a compendium of unsettling hybrid forms which blur the line between human and animal. Her works are often simultaneously alluring and repulsive: disembodied limbs, uncertain boundaries and liminal states. This exhibition marks a transition from her hybrid animal forms, for which she is well known, to a new body of work which speaks more directly to the experience of living with debilitating chronic illness.

Reduced in scale, languid, hand-sculpted human forms cast in a mixture of beeswax and marble dust rest in stainless steel bowls, partially obscured by hand-crocheted orbs of poodle fur. Complementing the figurative works in the show is a scale reproduction of Alvar Aalto's no. 41 chair, which the Architect designed for the Paimio sanatorium in 1932. Ellis’ version is reimagined with paper-thin stainless steel sheeting, a form that would collapse under the weight of its intended human inhabitant.

Drawing has remained a key element of the artist’s practice and a medium that she has been able to continue during periods of poor health. In her new solo show, a suite of new works on paper are included, representing this immediate and integral part of the artist’s working process. This sophisticated presentation elegantly articulates concerns pertinent to the artist through her refined visual vocabulary.