Barbican Art Gallery
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle

The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the twentieth century.

Gatti Routh Rhodes’ exhibition design for Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle celebrates the existing material and spatial qualities of the Barbican Art Gallery, whilst evoking the places and contexts in which Neel produced her work.

A series of fabric-covered plywood screens, refer to the language of picture framing as well as the domestic scale of the ‘home studio’ spaces where Neel painted many of her sitters. A bold colour palette which also references Neel’s work was developed in collaboration with graphic designers, Wolfe Hall.