About

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

My work stems from a series of lived experiences that continuously shape my perception and responses to the world. Even seemingly insignificant moments carry profound weight, as they accumulate into shifting traces that shape an evolving sense of self. This ongoing process often reflects a sense of displacement, both internal and external, as I move between belonging and otherness. These encounters, manifesting a journey of self-discovery, inform my practice and allow me to create immersive, open-ended spaces.

For me, displacement is not a singular biographical condition but an ongoing state of becoming—an ever-changing interplay between internal shifts and external pressures, between belonging and estrangement. This continual reconfiguration guides my practice, enabling the work to form open pictorial structures that resist closure and invite multiple points of entry.

Within my painting, the pictorial operates as a factor rather than a representation. Through oil’s density, overlaid colour, and the physicality of gesture, I construct layered sensations where adaptation, influence, and tension coexist. The materiality of paint becomes a catalyst—a force that presses experience into the weight and texture of the surface, driving the work’s internal dynamics.

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

By embracing the fluidity of identity, 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 unfolding 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