Andrew Litten : Unknown Futures - Hope, Longing, Grief & Other Distortions

Nog tot en met 15 mei 2026 stelt Andrew Litten zijn nieuw oeuvre - bestaande uit schilderijen, werken op papier en sculpturen - tentoon in Animamundi gallery in St. Ives - Cornwall (UK). 

Meer informatie en een overzicht van de werken vindt u hier

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Over four years, Andrew Litten has formed a significant body of paintings, sculptures and assemblages shaped by the consistent pressure of loss and uncertainty. The work emerges from endurance, from bearing disturbance and from inhabiting the spaces where grief, longing and hope collide. Born from lived experience, the work reaches into our contemporary world of global turbulence and uncertainty, tracing the fragile, anxious contours of a shared human moment and suggesting through vulnerability a pathway of empathy and connection for us all.

Dynamic gesture, engaging colour intensity and material properties carry the traces of the human interior: tenderness brushing against estrangement, intimacy shadowed by alienation, presence unsettled by absence. The work lives in these margins - slightly skewed, quietly unsettling - yet still it resonates absolutely - as here, isolation becomes a bridge and vulnerability is a sharing.

Boats drift. Birds hover. Tides shift. Watches tick. Wheels roll. These elements mark movement, progression and transformation, threading through the work like quiet signposts in a internal and external landscape of flux...

There is a lineage in which Litten’s practice sits: Bourgeois’ psychological tension, Giacometti’s fragile figuration, Goya’s moral scrutiny, Van Gogh’s raw intensity. Not through mimicry, but through kindred exploration: making visible the interior turbulence that is both personal and universal.

Creating this work is an act of deep attention and profound endurance. It is self-sacrificial, isolating and never self-soothing. Private intensity is risked, concentrated and released—offered outward, to provoke empathy and to incite connection. This is the tension that the work inhabits: darkness and hope, solitude and communion, grief and renewal.

In the quiet gravity of this exhibition, the nobility of Litten’s art is felt not in comfort, but in its honesty. Disturbing, necessary, exacting—yet profoundly humane. Through this sharing there is wider healing, a reflection of our shared fragility, uncertainty and need for compassion that mark this contemporary moment.

Joseph Clarke, 2026