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Artworks
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown British - Iraqi, b. 1996
Ships in the Night, 2025Oil and ink on canvas18 x 24 x 2 cm
7 1/8 x 9 1/2 x 3/4 inCopyright The ArtistLiterature
Dark, spare and tonally restrained relative to much of El-Kadhi Brown's output, Ships in the Night works in deep slate, brown and near-black, oil and ink producing a heavily worked surface from which compressed forms emerge. Cross-like marks suggest masts or signals, presences that pass without connection. The small scale concentrates the work's atmosphere, the title's idiom of missed encounter finding material expression in a surface that holds its forms at the edge of legibility.
