July 1 – August 14, 2026
Salon
Paul Stolper Gallery
In Person: 31 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH
Virtual Viewing: https://www.paulstolper.com/exhibitions/121-salon-private-view-tuesday-30-june-6-8/installation_shots/
Paul Stolper is pleased to announce ‘Salon’, a group show featuring works by Susannah Baker-Smith, Helen Beard, Lauren Bryden, Sarah Hardacre, Susie Hamilton, Donna McLean, Grace O’Connor and Jemima Stehli. The exhibition spans a period of almost thirty years, focusing on paintings, prints, needlework, and sculptures.
The earliest piece, Jemima Stehli’s 1999 ‘Strip #5, Dealer’, 6 Colour C-type prints, documents the performative nature of her work. Stehli removes her clothes whilst the Dealer, seated and holding the shutter release, determines when each photograph is taken. As Stehli puts it, “it’s the men’s self-consciousness that is uncomfortable when you really look at those pictures.”
‘Who is being exposed here, and who is in control? And who is the photographer – even though I’m the one clicking the shutter?’
Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Mon 15th February 2016
‘My interest in images of women is more to do with the language of looking and how powerful that is, which is why it’s never been a for or against, and why I’ve had some problems with the way the ‘Strip’ work has been discussed at times, because it’s not so straightforward. It’s about the power of looking and the power of being looked at.’
– Jemima Stehli, 1961 Projects, January 2020
In her latest series of sculptures, Sarah Hardacre collages nude imagery from pornographic magazines onto ornate vintage ceramics. Her sculptures address histories of invisible female labour within households, using items affiliated with domesticity.
