Contemporary artist Poppy Lennox explores the human desire to seek pattern as a way of understanding the vastness and complexities of existence. Working in wood with the layering and revealing of paint and incisive, repetitive, often geometric stitched marks of thread, she looks to the structures within the cosmos and nature’s intricate systems and patterns as a means to make visible the interconnectivity of life.
Energy Lines, Poppy’s most recent body of work reveals pattern that is reminiscent of both mycelium and cosmic networks. Tethered forms of thread go beyond the woven mark to connect the microcosm and macrocosm and reflect on the energetic and vibrational forces that surround every aspect of existence.
The Transcendentalist belief in the divinity of nature and the importance of our connection to it informs much of Poppy’s subject matter. The titles of her works reflect on the importance of the energetic, ritualistic and sometimes spiritualist dimensions to her practice and allude to a pursuit of ascension, self-liberation or perhaps, refuge. Recent works To Be in the Depths of Matter and The Initiate look for transcendence and subject matters that go beyond a physical level.
Since transitioning from her previous career as a project manager to museums, curators and artists, Poppy’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions, private members’ clubs and art fairs including 99 Projects, London (2022), Home House, London (2022) and The Other Art Fair (2022). She has sold to collectors in the UK, US, Singapore and Middle East and has work in the collection of renowned London wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd for whom she created a limited-edition artists’ label (2021). Poppy has worked with arts mental health charities Hospital Rooms (2022) and A Space Between (2022) to deliver on-line and in person workshops and has exhibited a number of times with Art on a Postcard and Art for Charity Collective on various exhibitions. Her work was included in a charity art auction at Christie’s (2022) and was part of the group exhibition Spirit of Boudica at Crypt Gallery, Norwich Cathedral (2024).
For more information and availability of work please contact Poppy via email.
Education
1999-2003 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University
Exhibition History
2024 ‘Dark Materials Tell Stories’, J/M Gallery, London, group exhibition
2024 'The Spirit of Boudica’, Norwich Cathedral, group exhibition
2023 ‘Re-Block’ pop-up as part of the ‘LONDON re made’ programme, group exhibition
2023 OPEN04, Excelsior Studios, London Design Festival, group exhibition
2023 ‘Synergism’, Gorst Road Studios, London Design Festival, group exhibition
2023 Art For Charity Collective Summer Exhibition
2023 ‘International Women’s Day Auction’, Art on a Postcard, curated by Lee Sharrock
2023 ‘International Women’s Day Auction’, Art For Charity Collective
2022 ‘Arms Around the Child, charity art auction, Christie’s Auction House
2022 ‘Poppy Lennox + Dawn Beckles: Life Still’, 99 Projects, London
2022 Home House, London, group exhibition
2022 ‘Expressions of Abstraction’, The Savoy, London, group exhibition
2022 ‘Rebirth’, 99 Projects, London, group exhibition curated by Lee Sharrock
2022 ‘Supernature’, Paxton + Glew Gallery, Brighton, group exhibition
2022 ‘SHE/HER/HERS’, Oakland Gallery, New Brighton, group exhibition
Art Fairs
2022 The Other Art Fair, London
2021 The Other Art Fair, London
Collaborations
2020 Limited edition artists’ label for Berry Bros & Rudd’s ‘Good Ordinary Claret’, London
Workshops and Development Programmes
2022 December Artist In Residence with in-person workshops, A Space Between, London
2022 Digital workshop, Hospital Rooms, London
2021 London Creative Network / Space Studios professional development programme
Publications and Media
Interview with Culturalee, January 2024
https://culturalee.art/poppy-lennox/
“99 Projects Presents Life Still”, Queen’s Park Folk, September 2022
https://queensparkfolk.com/businesses/99projects-presents-life-still-dawn-beckles-poppy-lennox-review-by-local-artist-jessica-holmes/
“The Upcoming: Poppy Lennox”, FAD Magazine, London, January 2022
https://fadmagazine.com/2022/01/21/the-upcoming-poppy-lennox/
“Rebirth: A 99 Projects Exhibition curated by Lee Sharrock”, ArtPlugged, London, 2022
https://artplugged.co.uk/rebirth-a-99-projects-exhibition-curated-by-lee-sharrock/
“Meet the artist: Poppy Lennox”, Berry Bros & Rudd interview, 2021
https://www.bbr.com/meet-the-artist-poppy-lennox