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As We Read
Ellie Walker and Lily Ramirez -
RHODES
65 Great Portland Street
London, W1W 7LW
12 june - 4 July 2026
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY 11 June 6 - 8pm
RHODES is pleased to present As We Read, a two-person exhibition bringing together works by Lily Ramírez and Ellie Walker. Marking the first exhibition with the gallery for both artists, the show considers contemporary abstraction as a form of visual language: intuitive, unstable and deeply tied to the act of interpretation.
Bringing together artists from different sides of the world, the exhibition finds an unexpected point of convergence between two distinct practices. Though shaped by different geographies, experiences and painterly approaches, the works of Ramírez and Walker seem to operate within a shared visual language, where gesture, rhythm and repetition become forms of communication that move beyond words.
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Lily Ramírez
Born in Mexico and now based in the USA, Lily Ramírez develops her paintings through repetitive, distinctive marks that operate like a private language. Suggestive of aerial mapping, notation and coded systems, her works hold traces of biography and memory without resolving into direct narrative. Through layered gestures and shifting structures, Ramírez creates works that feel simultaneously intimate and unreadable, inviting interpretation while resisting certainty. -
Ellie Walker
Based in London, UK, Ellie Walker approaches painting through gesture, materiality and surface. Her process-led practice is shaped by continual revision, layering, scraping, tearing and re-stitching, where the canvas becomes a site of edit and rebuild, behaving like a continually rewritten text or evolving memory trace. Compositions develop through accumulation and adjustment, revealing traces of movement and decision-making within the final image. -
Ellie Walker
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Ellie Walker, The doubt was screaming at me, so I gave it the middle finger, 2026£ 5,400.00 -
Ellie Walker, All pent up, 2026£ 4,700.00
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Ellie Walker, Glitchy, 2026£ 4,700.00
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Ellie Walker, Book hoarder, 2026£ 3,550.00
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