21/08/2026
Meet the artist & discuss her work!
Open 2-6pm Fridays. 11-6pm Saturdays, 11-6pm Sun & Mon 30th & 31st & at 10 minutes notice +447949279462
We watch, we live, we settle our eyes near and far. Cristina Starr’s art is driven by questions about love, brutality, greed, s*x, and alienation.
Cristina’s interested in our animal aspects as humans, and how these relate to resilience and power relationships. She is a New Yorker based in London with a background in Religious Studies (BA, Brown University), Clinical Social Work (MSW, New York University) and Fine Art (MFA, Goldsmiths).
In this exhibition with 11 of Starr's paintings, entitled "Eyes and Skies" Starr explores the contemporary phenomenon of watching more horrors than ever unfolding due to widespread internet, such as the livestreamed US/Israeli genocide of Palestinians and pervasive mysoginistic pornographic material, while also being surveilled more than ever by those with money and power. This creates a new sense of rage and anxiety as we pass through our days, and has changed what we pay attention to, what we notice, and how we respond. Starr's paintings are a way of processing this new level of stimulation and surveillance, and a way of sharing with the viewer an empathetic response to events that governments and blocks of priviliged people deny, censor and ignore, such as the Epstein files, and the Gaza Genocide. Through storytelling and allegory, the paintings evoke truths that we have seen with our own eyes but that we are gaslit about by governments and mainstream media propaganda.
Saturday 22nd 5pm Cristina Starr will give a guided tour of her paintings approx 45 mins, free, Vermouth
Sunday 30th 5pm Cristina Starr will give a guided tour of her paintings approx 45 mins, free, Vermouth
