Suzy Spence: Bohemian Arms presents new oil paintings where elegance and injury coexist in uneasy proximity. Drawing on British sporting art, New York School gesture, and figures from Goya to Paula Rego, Spence constructs fictitious portraits in which hunter and hunted dynamics persist into the present. Her recent shift from water-based to oil paint opens a sensuous chromatic field informed by fashion photography. Walking canes — dandy prop and personal medical device after a 2019 riding accident — render vulnerability tangible. Narrative hovers throughout, offered only as possibility.
