Theodora Ballantyne-Way | Coco de Lune
Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 42 × 60cm
Paper size: 54 × 70cm
Edition of 20
£385 unframed or £38.50 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
In her recent works artist Theadora Ballantyne-Way has been playing with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened. In this myth they rise and set with the moon and the sun.
Ballantyne-Way’s work has been widely exhibited in the UK, including at the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, on several occasions. She has also exhibited in Kyoto, Japan with Goldsmiths University in 2019 and won first prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize in 2022. Her work has been included in several notable collections including the V&A Museum, London.
Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 42 × 60cm
Paper size: 54 × 70cm
Edition of 20
£385 unframed or £38.50 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
In her recent works artist Theadora Ballantyne-Way has been playing with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened. In this myth they rise and set with the moon and the sun.
Ballantyne-Way’s work has been widely exhibited in the UK, including at the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, on several occasions. She has also exhibited in Kyoto, Japan with Goldsmiths University in 2019 and won first prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize in 2022. Her work has been included in several notable collections including the V&A Museum, London.
Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 42 × 60cm
Paper size: 54 × 70cm
Edition of 20
£385 unframed or £38.50 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
In her recent works artist Theadora Ballantyne-Way has been playing with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened. In this myth they rise and set with the moon and the sun.
Ballantyne-Way’s work has been widely exhibited in the UK, including at the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, on several occasions. She has also exhibited in Kyoto, Japan with Goldsmiths University in 2019 and won first prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize in 2022. Her work has been included in several notable collections including the V&A Museum, London.
