'Distorted Self' introduces Jonathan Bennett, Catherine Lette and Richard Meaghan in a three-person exhibition
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is pleased to present 'Distorted Self', a three-person painting exhibition bringing together contemporary artists Jonathan Bennett, Catherine Lette, and Richard MeaghanThe exhibition explores the distorted figure as a site of psychological tension, social pressure, and inner conflict, examining how bodies become reshaped by environment, ideology, and the unconscious
Across the exhibition, the human form appears fractured, exaggerated, reduced, or transformedRather than functioning as stable representations of identity, these figures operate as psychological diagrams-sites where anxiety, power, care, alienation, humour, and resistance are played out
Jonathan Bennett's paintings reduce the body to simplified, often comic forms derived from clay modelsLimbs become architectural, faces collapse into objects, and cobalt blue surfaces reference the industrial ceramics of his birthplace, Stoke-on-TrentWorking quickly in oil, Bennett creates theatrical tableaux animated by flamboyant, poetic titles that echo the allegorical tradition of European painting while subverting its authorityHis works stage melodramatic encounters between anthropomorphic forms, offering not fixed meanings but a charged space in which the unconscious can surface
Catherine Lette's work centres on the figure under pressure-fragmented, disassembled, or in states of uneasy adaptationDrawing from personal experience, her paintings explore how domestic, rural, virtual, and imagined environments shape both body and mindLette's distorted figures reflect emotional and psychological states rather than physical realism, addressing themes of care, motherhood, female agency, and the instability of homeHumour and ambiguity coexist with unease, while landscapes, objects, and animals increasingly enter the work as active participants, complicating the boundary between inner life and external world
Richard Meaghan presents a darker, dystopian vision of bodily distortion, where identity is eroded by technology, consumerism, and ideological controlThrough existential portraiture, his work depicts the body as a site of surveillance, mutation, and erasureFigures become avatars, data points, or insect-like remnants, echoing Orwellian and Kafkaesque anxietiesMeaghan's paintings confront the psychological violence of modern systems, asking what remains of the self when humanity is mediated, commodified, or hollowed out
Together, Bennett, Lette, and Meaghan present distortion not as stylistic excess, but as a necessary visual language for articulating contemporary experience'Distorted Self' proposes the body as a contested psychological terrain-one shaped by memory, power, care, technology, and the persistent struggle to remain human
The event will take place at Gramercy Park Studios, 25 Great Pulteney Street, Soho, London W1F 9LTAvailable to view Monday-Friday 10am-5pmFor further information please contact direct@charliesmithlondon.comFollow @CHARLIESMITHIdn
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Artists: Jonathan Bennett, Catherine Lette, Richard Meaghan
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