LONDON.- GV Art presents Breath by award winning Australian artist Helen Pynor. Pynor’s new body of work is a captivating and powerful portrayal of the interior of the human body, introducing a visual language that is at once anatomically explicit and yet conveys a tenderness and regard for her subject matter that is refreshing, surprising and disturbing in the context of the body’s interior. The works offer new and unexpected ways to view and relate to our body’s interior which remains a largely unexplored and somewhat frightening domain for many of us. The exhibition is on view until July 2nd, 2011. The unlikely starting point for this body of work was research Pynor undertook into incidents of accidental drowning in the Thames, inspired by her first year in London in 2009-2010 which was spent working by the river. Beguiled by the river’s shifting tides and lethal currents, she researched some of the thou
