Sam Llewellyn-Jones' "A Billion Years of Woe" features a muted palette of grays and browns, evoking a sense of ancient geological formations. The composition is layered with textures suggesting eroded landscapes and organic decay, using techniques like frottage to blend randomness and precision. The abstracted forms resemble fossils and rock strata, inviting reflection on deep time and natural history. Llewellyn-Jones' photographic approach captures the tension between permanence and transformation, aligning with his exploration of humanity's connection to Earth's material legacy. ...
Sam Llewellyn-Jones’ practice engages the tradition of landscape to explore natural history, geology, deep time, and the human relationship to the material world. Drawing on references from astronomy, archaeology, and material culture, his work examines how we perceive and interpret environmental traces.
Photography sits at the core of his practice, functioning both as a fieldwork tool and a means of recording material transformation. Through frottage, contact-based drawing, and hand-coloured photographic prints, Llewellyn-Jones layers texture and gesture to disrupt photographic precision, positioning his work between image and object, control and chance. ...
Founded by Aubrey Higgin, Chilli began as an artist-run program in 2022. In 2023 the project evolved to establish its first permanent gallery space, and has since grown into a respected voice in the London emerging art scene. The gallery prides itself on giving overlooked artists a voice with a particular focus on cultivating international artistic dialogues.
Its programming focuses on diverse, emerging, international artists - united by a desire to tell untold stories of experience, identity & environment through unique painterly, material or conceptual processes. With a focus on painting, Chilli promotes cross-cultural exchange - bringing many international artists to London audiences for the first time. By showcasing artists across multiple continents, the gallery establishes a discursive critical voice - addressing diverse perspectives of art within the broader context of contemporary artistic practices. ...
