For 30 years, the English poet and artist Penny Goring has been making art from hardship and living an uncertain life in order to make her work. You can visit the exhibition at the ICA located in Charing Cross until 18 September.
This is in her first institutional exhibition which showcases an open, deep and brutally honest image of Goring’s personal life.
The works include little ink drawings, with nudity and appearances of violence.
Throughout the exhibition you can certainly see that the her work is inspired by issues in our society with strong themes of poverty and pain.
Her work is very personal and comes across that way too in the exhibition, Goring fully incorporates having overcome personal trauma, poverty and mental illness and this is evident through 30 years of contentious art-making.
Goring uses ballpoint pens, fabric, food dye and free computer programmes such as Microsoft Paint to create her work.
Her work has been shaped by restrictive housing conditions, and these are evident throughout the collection, including themes around finance and inadequate therapeutic support.