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The Guardian // Entertainment // Art

‘A psychedelic explosion in a dental surgery’ – Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons review

Monday 9th June 2025, 4:00AM

Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonThe first contemporary artist to take over the gallery’s main space, her signature gaping mouths, lolling tongues and broken teeth are ripe with hyper-colourful symbolismRachel Jones is frothing at the mouth, baring her teeth and licking her lips. The young English painter has an oral fixation, and the result is a show that looks like a psychedelic bomb has been detonated in a dentist’s surgery.For six years now, Jones has been painting teeth and mouths in thick swirls of Technicolor semi-abstraction. Gums and lips appear over and over. Incisors are twisted, snapped, broken. There are smears of red, shards of jagged white, lumps of fleshy pink, all lost in trippy hazes of endless clashing colours. Continue reading...

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