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Miranda Forrester — Poolside
Miranda Forrester — Poolside
Miranda Forrester — Poolside
Miranda Forrester — Poolside
Miranda Forrester — Poolside
Miranda Forrester

Poolside

2025

A luminous expanse of water anchors Miranda Forrester's Poolside (2025), a large-scale oil and image transfer on canvas measuring 210 × 160.5 cm. The work draws the viewer into a suspended moment of leisure and languor, where the cool geometries of a swimming pool dissolve into something altogether more psychological. Forrester's layering of painted surface against transferred imagery creates a productive tension between the photographic and the painterly, collapsing documentary record into subjective experience. The result is an image that feels simultaneously familiar and unstable, as though memory itself were being held just beneath the surface. Forrester, who works at the intersection of Caribbean diasporic identity and the politics of pleasure, uses the pool as a charged site of social meaning. Access, visibility, and the body's relationship to public and private space all circulate quietly within the composition. Her handling of light is especially assured here, with reflections and refractions doing the work of both formal seduction and conceptual inquiry. The scale of the piece commands physical presence in a room, asking the viewer to stand before it as one might stand at the edge of water itself. Signed by the artist and currently presented through Tiwani Contemporary, Poolside is offered without a frame, allowing collectors the freedom to determine its final presentation. This is a significant work from a pivotal moment in Forrester's practice, one that rewards sustained looking and sits comfortably within collections attentive to contemporary painting, postcolonial discourse, and the evolving language of figuration.

Medium
Oil and image transfer on canvas
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Tiwani Contemporary, London

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Miranda Forrester, Poolside, 2025

A luminous expanse of water anchors Miranda Forrester's Poolside (2025), a large-scale oil and image transfer on canvas measuring 210 × 160.5 cm. The work draws the viewer into a suspended moment of leisure and languor, where the cool geometries of a swimming pool dissolve into something altogether more psychological. Forrester's layering of painted surface against transferred imagery creates a productive tension between the photographic and the painterly, collapsing documentary record into subjective experience. The result is an image that feels simultaneously familiar and unstable, as though memory itself were being held just beneath the surface. Forrester, who works at the intersection of Caribbean diasporic identity and the politics of pleasure, uses the pool as a charged site of social meaning. Access, visibility, and the body's relationship to public and private space all circulate quietly within the composition. Her handling of light is especially assured here, with reflections and refractions doing the work of both formal seduction and conceptual inquiry. The scale of the piece commands physical presence in a room, asking the viewer to stand before it as one might stand at the edge of water itself. Signed by the artist and currently presented through Tiwani Contemporary, Poolside is offered without a frame, allowing collectors the freedom to determine its final presentation. This is a significant work from a pivotal moment in Forrester's practice, one that rewards sustained looking and sits comfortably within collections attentive to contemporary painting, postcolonial discourse, and the evolving language of figuration.

Medium
Oil and image transfer on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 210 x 160.5 cm
Year
2025
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Tiwani Contemporary, London

Related themes

Mixed Media, LGBTQ+ Artist, Oil Painting, Summery, British, Swimming Pool, Figurative, Leisure, Contemporary

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