“Just as a mollusc spins itself a shell in layers, these paintings have been made slowly to hold something soft that moves so it can still itself. The method in making something, the soft logic in a spiral form, is that you’ve got to move further from the centre to go anywhere, or you must move closer, further inward. Staying on your one foot, concentric, won’t make anything – to make you must move. When you coil a carpet or roll up a very large piece of paper there is an unruly strength in the middle. It doesn’t want to hold but it does. It keeps the movement of the thing that needs containing, the will of the whole. Something becoming lost, or becoming, can somehow be held in a painting, a still thing.”
                           - Excerpt from Soft Logic exhibition text by Aisha Far

Mary Herbert (b. 1988, Hertfordshire) received a BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies from Goldsmiths College, London (2010) and completed the Drawing Year Postgraduate Programme at the Royal Drawing School, London (2010).  Her works have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the galleries Moskowitz Bayse (Los Angeles) and Lychee One (London), and have recently been included in group exhibitions at The British Museum, and the galleries White Cube, Union Pacific, and Huxley-Parlour (London), F2T Gallery (Milan), Harkawik (New York), and Clint Roenisch (Toronto), among others. Her work is in the collections of The British Museum and The Royal Collection. Mary Herbert lives and works in London, UK.

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