Draw a Card, Corner Gallery, RHA 

30 Jan - 9 March 2025

Draw a card is part of the final iteration of an ongoing project which centres around three of the
artists’ family members' engagement with state-run educational spaces.
This iteration investigates the conflict between Conway’s twin sister’s studies in astrology, tarot
and crystal healing and her demanding, logic-driven studies in bio-pharmaceutical chemistry
while at university. The title Draw a card refers to both sisters' chance encounters with
expansive and innumerable source materials within early adulthood, and how baring to witness
to information intrinsically alters the self in unquantifiable ways.
This selection of paintings arises from Conways research while on residence at Studio Voltaire,
London, working with the meticulously curated, hyper-colour-coordinated filing system that her
sister has developed to study both fields.

The evolution of an expanded colour palette in the artist’s practice cites implicitly the source
materials used, referring to the standardised pastel palettes of post its, labels and ring binders.
The subdued colours utilised in these prosaic materials are heightened and pushed to the limits
of their saturation possibilities, in reference to arresting visual qualities of man made and

organic crystals, modern tarot decks and astrology ephemera. Holding the viewer in an
exploration of the materiality of the painting, which at once seeks to contain the subject matter
through geometric organisation and elevate to the point of spectacle through traditional glazing
techniques.

The paintings position her sisters disparate filing systems and research materials, within a single
coalescing plane in reference to the craft and organisation involved in these systems which blur
the line between meditation, utility and artistic exploration. This unification further asks the
viewer to consider our impulses and abilities to operate within a host of logic systems in order to
navigate studies, vocations and the world at large.