An angel often symbolizes the ideal aspects of human nature. Fluttering on a moral high ground as little keepers of peace in cathedral ceilings. These winged wonders are the acolytes and the very essence of love and hope. They are also attached to a religious belief, a school of thought which created hatred against certain ways of loving one another. We can all get lost in the dreamscapes that love can conjure. It’s a bubbly balloon world filled with honeymilk rivers and flower fields. In this sanctuary the ideas of who we are seep into the seas, trees and clouds. How can this land be anything less than holy?

Intimacy, a comfort and a question. In this body of work Lennox inspects love and connections. Drawing the
personal into the societal, cultural and inherited. Who taught us how to love? Who taught us who we can love? From the orgasmic to religious iconographic he explores the plethora of feelings that emerge when you give yourself to your inner desires and break away from cultural pressure… and choose to trust, even though nothing really can be trusted.

Christophe Lennox (b. 1986 Dundee, Scotland) holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Concordia University in Montreal in 2012. After having lived in Canada for a decade he returned to the UK and lived in London where he gave up painting and started a bespoke furniture making company. Following the death of his grandfather, also an artist, he inherited a box of old paints and began painting again.

Selected solo and group exhibitions include The Birdkeeper, Hos Arne, Oslo, 2024; Vanishing Act, ISCA, Oslo, 2024; The Apartment, Smedgata 7c, Oslo, 2024; LOL with Friends, Kösk, Oslo, 2024; Sanctuary - Towner International, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK, 2022; Linear Dusts, Barbican Flat, London, 2016; Narratives, Gallerie Art-Mur, Montreal, Canada, 2009; Five Paintings, Van Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2009; Angel with a serious face, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, Canada, 2005. Lennox currently lives and works in Oslo.

Exhibiton text by Marius Nakken Larsen