Alone time at Union Pacific

Artists: Jin Han Lee, Xinyu Zhou, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Jenine Marsh

Exhibition title: Alone time

Venue: Union Pacific, London, UK

Date: January 25 – February 24, 2023

Photography: Ollie Hammick / all images courtesy of the artists and Union Pacific, London

Alone time explores introspection from four distinctly differing lenses. Xinyu Zhou and Jin Han Lee use their brushes as a way of depicting moments of quiet contemplation. In Jin’s, abstract painting becomes a language through which she is able to communicate the unspoken emotions of quotidian life and in Zhou’s paintings, she depicts visages of women from her family – the washed out blue palette suggestive of a past she’s gradually uncovering in paint. For Rebecca K Halliwell Sutton and Jenine Marsh, they use sculpture to understand the trails we leave behind. For Rebecca, sheets of aluminium are hammered into organic forms, the marks revealing remnants of her tools at work, and in Jenine’s, she uses objects representative of exchange, here delicately assembled sculptures of flowers and coins become stiffened in synthetic rubber or else melted down, revealing their history.

Alone time, 2023, exhibition view, Union Pacific, London

Jin Han Lee, Meeting at Night, 2022, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour and spray paint on linen, 150 x 200cm

Jin Han Lee, November Moon, 2022, Oil on linen, 150 x 200cm

Jin Han Lee, Tree Man (yellow moon), 2022, Oil on linen, 116.8 x 91cm

Jin Han Lee, Tree Man (Purple Night), 2022, Oil on linen, 116.8 x 91cm

Jenine Marsh, charm for the remainder (3), 2022, Flowers, wire, coin, synthetic rubber, acrylic UV varnish, nails, 36 x 6 x 6cm

Jenine Marsh, charm for the remainder (4), 2022, Flowers, wire, coin, synthetic rubber, acrylic UV varnish, nails, 13 x 7 x 2cm

Jenine Marsh, charm for the remainder (the (re-)construction of fully visible forms, 2022, Flowers, wire, coin, synthetic rubber, acrylic UV varnish, nails, 36 x 6 x 6cm