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About Florence Reekie

Informed by the materiality and luminosity of oil paint, Florence Reekie’s highly-detailed and delicately rendered works reimagine the role of drapery in painting. Her works often feature glimmering swathes of fabric, hands elegantly encased in silk gloves or flowing ribbons that have been mysteriously discarded. Rather than positioning drapery as mere staging for the figure, Reekie deploys it as the body’s veil or armour in dialogue with contemporary fashion and a complex understanding of identity and self presentation.

By drawing attention to drapery, a long-standing yet often overlooked element of classical painting, Reekie’s work ignites discussion around identity, vanity and perception. She is interested in the way in which an individual's aesthetic presentation is socially coded, investigating the lacuna between authenticity and assimilation. In particular, she toys with the idea of ‘beauty secrets’ - hidden gestures typically associated with women’s attempts to align themselves with a certain cultural notion of beauty.

About EFA Morocco

EFA Morocco provides marginalized girls in rural Morocco with access to education. By eradicating the logistical, economic and social obstacles to high quality education, EFA enables these young women to fulfill their true potential.

EFA does this by building and running boarding houses for teenage girls close to schools, ensuring the girls can easily attend class every day and obtain a Baccalaureate degree.