San Mei Gallery is pleased to present A Return To Innocence by Hastings-based artist Alexi Marshall. This will be the seventh exhibition in San Mei Gallery’s public-facing window space, home to a new  commercial programming strand presenting micro-exhibitions with works available for sale by emerging contemporary artists. 

Alexi Marshall creates mosaics made with glass tiles and excess wooden substrate sourced from local carpenters. Taking an intuitive approach which leans into the subconscious to explore what may arise, Marshall’s mosaics are bold images acting like snapshots or motifs, with words and symbols that come to the surface. 

A Return To Innocence offers a return to the playfulness of art-making; to the images and symbols that always remain in the psyche, and to unquestioned intuition as a source of creativity, allowing the images to weave a story themselves. 

Artist Biography

Alexi Marshall is a print, mosaic and embroidery-based artist whose works investigate themes of womanhood, folklore and rebirth. Marshall has exhibited her work in five solo exhibitions across the UK and Italy, and has shown internationally in selected group shows including Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2018. Marshall founded and facilitates a community based project, ‘Peculiar Arcana’, fostering connection within groups through tarot and printmaking. She also works with Wysing Art Centre to deliver workshops with the Creative Youth Council.

Sales

The works in this exhibition are for sale as part of a new commercial programming strand by San Mei Gallery, providing income opportunities for emerging artists as well as fundraising for San Mei Gallery’s other non-commercial artistic and educational projects.

All works can be purchased via the button below. For any other enquiries please contact rufus@sanmeigallery.co.uk.

Private view

Join us for a combined private view on Thursday 26 September, 6-8pm in conjunction with Sam Ashby’s exhibition in our main gallery. Drinks kindly provided by Brixton Brewery. 

Notes to editors

For further information and high resolution images please contact eleanor@sanmeigallery.co.uk