VENUS AND ADONIS
The Venus and Adonis works dwell in the tension between passion and vulnerability, love and loss.
Desire does not fade with time, but takes on new forms, shaped by memory, hope and the weight of experience.
Venus and Adonis XVIII, 2025
Oil, acrylic, plaster on handmade paper (framed), 35 × 29.2 cm
Finger carved into plaster and paint
An erotic request from Venus
Forbidden love
Female desire
What is revealed?
What is concealed?
What remains?
Venus and Adonis VII, 2025
Oil, acrylic, plaster on handmade paper, 22 × 15.5 cm
Venus and Adonis XII, 2025
Oil, acrylic, plaster on handmade paper, 22 × 15.5 cm
Venus and Adonis VIII, 2025
Oil, acrylic, plaster on handmade paper, 22 × 15.5 cm
Venus and Adonis X, 2025
Oil, acrylic, plaster on handmade paper, 22 × 15.5 cm
Venus and Adonis XVIII will be on view in Put ‘Em Up! at Tristan Hoare Gallery from 11th June to 17th July 2026.
Curated by Omar Mazhar and Robin Katz, Put ‘Em Up! is an exhibition of hands, which are at once the most ordinary and the most miraculous of instruments. Of all parts of the human body, none has compelled artists more persistently, across more cultures and centuries, than the hand.