About

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

My work emerges from encounters with internal and external forces that continuously shape perception and identity. Even seemingly insignificant moments carry weight—not as narratives, but as traces that accumulate over time, reshaping an evolving sense of self. This process often manifests through displacement, situated between belonging and otherness.

For me, displacement is not a singular biographical event but an ongoing state of becoming—an 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.

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 traces through weight, opacity, and surface, activating 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 traces rather than personal narratives, creating conditions in which displacement and otherness unfold through interaction.

By embracing identity as a continuously shaped condition, my practice moves beyond fixed categories or representational expectations. Identity is often understood through labels and predetermined forms of recognition, yet I am interested in what exceeds them. Similarly, a painting cannot be reduced to the interpretations it generates. Although fully visible, it remains irreducible to any singular reading. My practice therefore establishes a pictorial field that remains open, 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