Sacral Drawing

Beatrix Haxby’s work spans painting, drawing, performance and sculpture. The perpetual motion machine of her imagination creates high speed collisions between High and Low culture, surrealist esoterica and a latent, sapphic Paganism that imbues animals and women with mythic significance. The muse holds the key, the chatelaine of her canvas-cosmos. Velasquez’ penchant for the cameo, Dalí’s sybaritism: the cinematic sweep of her compositions seamlessly sample a multitude of genres and stylistic influences. These tenebrous and thoroughly composed vignettes, seemingly formed from private corners of the mind in true Surrealist praxis - also form a lattice of coincidence in the outside world. The graffiti classicism motif is inspired by her backdrop of 21st century Britain: crumbling neoclassical hubris and street art. One eye on her inner world, another on the outer, she is constantly assessing her surroundings and anticipating trends. She makes work in Leeds and London.