About

Margot Blackk is a contemporary abstract artist based in London, UK.

My work stems from encounters with internal and external forces that continuously shape how perception, response, and identity are configured. Even seemingly insignificant moments carry weight—not as narrative experiences, but as effects that accumulate over time, leaving shifting traces that reshape an evolving sense of self. This ongoing process often manifests as a condition of displacement, situated between belonging and otherness.

For me, displacement is not a singular biographical event but an ongoing state of becoming—an ever-changing interplay between internal shifts and external pressures, proximity and distance, belonging and estrangement. These continual reconfigurations inform my practice, guiding the work toward open pictorial structures that resist closure and remain responsive to encounter.

Within my painting, the pictorial operates as a factor rather than a representation. Through oil’s density, layered colour, and the physicality of gesture, I construct fields in which adaptation, influence, and tension coexist. Materiality functions as an active catalyst: paint registers accumulated effects through weight, opacity, and surface, activating internal dynamics that exceed description or intention.

I consider my paintings to be sites of resonance—objects in which introspection meets material presence, and where ambiguity is not resolved but activated. The layers within each work embody accumulated effects rather than personal narratives, creating conditions in which displacement and otherness unfold through interaction.

By embracing the fluidity of identity as a continuously shaped condition, my practice moves beyond fixed categories or representational expectations. It establishes a pictorial field that operates in the present—ever-changing, resistant to closure, and sustained through encounter.

Education

2025/2026 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2024 (Honours) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, On, Canada

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Please, Black!, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, On

2023 Adversity to Contemplation, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, On

Group Exhibitions

2023 “Iridescence”, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, On

2022 “Abstraction”, 100 McCaul st, Toronto, On