MKII, 71-75 POWERSCROFT RD, LONDON

10th to 13th November 2022

In November 2022, Barcelona-based artist Joshua Perkin exhibited a large new body of work for his first solo show in London, Animals. 

The name of the exhibition references Joshua Perkin’s past and his present, having grown up on a farm in the U.K, he has always been surrounded by animals. Yet the title's direct detachment from the act of painting emphasises his reluctance to guide or direct a dialogue about the work, in any way beyond a willingness to talk about who he is and where he came from.

Currently renovating a secluded property in rural Spain by hand, and taking care of all the cats and dogs and birds, of the fish and the vegetables, painting what he builds and building what he paints, Joshua is present. There is a stillness and belonging to these paintings that binds them to his new home, to him, to how and where he is living.

The exhibition also features ceramics by Ana Kerin.