Henrietta Roeder is a director of Practise Room, which she co-runs with Luke Hannam, drawing on her previous experience as a senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts. Her work can be seen at the Lido Stores Gallery and in various Soho Houses. And currently with Gallery Hole, Modern Problems, Darsham Suffolk.
For Henrietta, painting is an exploration of materiality, its substance, its histories, and its ability to speak within the vast and sometimes chaotic continuum of art history. Her work investigates the human condition, the felt moment, and the universal language of emotion as expressed through paint.
Painting becomes her companion in this inquiry. Oils, gouache, acrylics, whatever occupies her studio, carry their own material narratives while insisting on the urgency of the present. The act of painting can be tender or resistant, pulling her under like a swamp or pushing her outward when she grows too certain. It is both obedience and rebellion, an ebb and flow where. Instagram @henriettaroeder
