Figurative painter Evangeline Armstrong explores how movement becomes memory, and how repetition, rhythm and the act of letting go can be rendered in paint through layering, gesture and scale.
Armstrong’s practice explores movement as a form of visual conversation, with a particular focus on how technology-produced-light distorts the human figure through film.
In 2023, she began her longest standing dance collaboration with Senegalese dancer Moustapha Bassirou Sibr (Rigne Se). Together, the duo explored a movement series that resulted in short film. Stills from these sequences where captured and digitally reproduced, until eventually turned into large-scale oil paintings. Armstrong aims to capture moments in time that cannot be replicated - an eerie middle-ground of balance and weight.
Currently based in Holborn, London, Armstrong graduated from Central Saint Martins with first-class honours in 2015.