A spokesperson says---
"...Bringing together more than forty paintings spanning 2001 to the present—including three new commissions created specially for the exhibition—Entwined offers the most comprehensive presentation of Gribbon’s work to date. ... the exhibition traces the evolution of her practice from early experimental works informed by art-historical precedents to the luminous portraits that have established her as one of the leading figurative painters of her generation.
Beginning with works made in 2001, the exhibition follows Gribbon’s development from paintings informed by surrealism, theatricality, and symbolic imagery to the psychologically charged portraits and domestic scenes for which she is now celebrated. Frequently depicting those closest to her—most notably her wife, musician Mackenzie Scott, known professionally as TORRES—Gribbon transforms everyday encounters into meditations on inseparability, desire, perception, and selfhood. Her paintings draw viewers into a world where personal relationships become the foundation for exploring broader questions of identity and representation.
At the heart of Gribbon’s practice is an engagement with relational psychology, a school of thought that understands subjectivity as something formed through encounters with others. Her imagery blurs the boundaries between portraiture and self-portraiture through reflections, shadows, and doubled perspectives that place traces of the artist within the paintings themselves. ...
The exhibition culminates with three new paintings created specifically for the Rose. Centered on closely cropped, three-quarter-length portraits of Mackenzie Scott, these works introduce a... chapter in Gribbon's practice. Her own face is projected across Scott's features and body, creating... double images charged with psychological intensity. Rather than suggesting that one figure simply becomes the other, these layered compositions evoke a shared relational space where identities remain fluid, overlapping, and continually in formation. In these... new paintings, Gribbon proposes intimacy itself as a creative force—one capable of producing new forms of subjectivity shaped through love, desire, and lived experience..."
