{"id":16602,"date":"2026-07-28T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=16602"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:27:06","slug":"lola-stong-brett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/lola-stong-brett\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Stong-Brett"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2533\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16602-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2026\/LolaStongBrett.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2026\/LolaStongBrett.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2026\/LolaStongBrett.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16607 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=292%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?resize=1068%2C1424&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lola-Stong-Brett_Portrait.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesfuentes.com\/exhibitions\/sometime-somewhere-someone-is-dancing\">Lola Stong-Brett<\/a>\u00a0(b. 1996, London, United Kingdom; lives and works in Margate) most recently graduated the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (2024) following studies at the Edinburgh College of Art (2016). Her first solo exhibition, For That, I&#8217;ll Always Smile, was presented at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate in 2025. While her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions across the United Kingdom and in Mexico City, Sometime Somewhere Someone Is Dancing marks Stong-Brett\u2019s debut in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Working at a scale that envelops the body, Stong-Brett\u2019s mark-making is deeply diaristic. Cartoon-like figures emerge from fields of heightened gestural abstraction, recording fluctuating inner states to form an entwined world of direct expression. Across the paintings, figures intertwine, drift apart, cling to one another, or reach beyond each other\u2019s grasp. With great emotional immediacy, the works evoke the complex, shifting choreography of human connection\u2014the experience of holding on and letting go, like witnessing someone you love move beyond you.<\/p>\n<p>Within this symbolic setting, Popeye returns from earlier works alongside Bimbo and a newly introduced female figure. Part childhood nostalgia, part reference to tattoo culture, Popeye first entered Stong-Brett\u2019s paintings as an emblem of raw humanity. The artist recalls initially being drawn to the character\u2019s visual language before discovering the significance of Max Fleischer\u2019s early animations, in which Popeye emerged as one of the first distinctly working-class cartoon characters, depicted within commonplace settings in sharp contrast to the polished fantasy worlds of early Disney. Over time and through repeated use, however, Popeye\u2019s original allegorical charge has loosened and expanded. Evolving into a more fluid emotional architecture, the figure retains its cultural and personal history while remaining open enough to be inhabited by multiple identities and relationships\u2014at times forming a stand-in for the artist herself and the people closest to her.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb3_on-stage-where-you-once-danced_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb3_on-stage-where-you-once-danced_2026.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb3_on-stage-where-you-once-danced_2026.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb3_on-stage-where-you-once-danced_2026.jpg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb3_on-stage-where-you-once-danced_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C430&amp;ssl=1 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lola Stong-Brett On Stage Where You Once Danced, 2026 Oil on canvas 2 panels, overall: 74 3\/4 \u00d7 130 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16605\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb4_yellow-christ-and-raft_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C423&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb4_yellow-christ-and-raft_2026.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb4_yellow-christ-and-raft_2026.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb4_yellow-christ-and-raft_2026.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb4_yellow-christ-and-raft_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C423&amp;ssl=1 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lola Stong-Brett Yellow Christ And Raft, 2026 Signed and dated verso Oil on canvas 76 3\/4 \u00d7 133 7\/8 inches (overall) 76 3\/4 \u00d7 66 15\/16 inches (each)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16606\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16606 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C823&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=866%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 866w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=768%2C908&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=1299%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=1732%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=696%2C823&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=1068%2C1263&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?resize=1920%2C2271&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lsb7_it-s-like-i-can-still-feel-your-arms-around-me-when-you-re-standing-behind-me_2026.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lola Stong-Brett It&#8217;s Like I Can Still Feel Your Arms Around Me, When You&#8217;re Standing Behind Me, 2026 Signed and dated verso Oil on canvas 70 7\/8 \u00d7 59 1\/16 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2026\/LolaStongBrett.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listLola Stong-Brett\u00a0(b. 1996, London, United Kingdom; lives and works in Margate) most recently graduated the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (2024) following studies at the Edinburgh College of Art (2016). 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