A special-looking show at the Fitzrovia Gallery. ‘Life's too Short to Live in Black and White’ is a collaboration between artist Liza Campbell and Jolyon Fenwick. The former creates fascinating embroided tapestries on washed linen, each containing more than 360,000 stitches of silk thread. Fenwick, who has contributed three individual series for this show, is best known for a brilliant photo series in 2017 that marked the anniversary of the First World War’s Somme offensive.
Campbell's series, ‘Textual Taxonomics’, focuses on themes like human flaws, substance abuse and feminism’s impact on the relationships that exist between men and women. Fenwick’s work meanwhile is split between ‘Virus Classics’ (a take on the pandemic, featuring redesigned classic book covers), ‘Compositions with Beetles & Butterflies’ (various insect species arranged in meaningful patterms) and ‘A Decline in Mental Health’ (sculpture work using marbles to depict issues surrounding depression and other illnesses).