Chrissie Stewart is an artist with a practice involving painting, drawing and experimental moving image.

Education: UAL Chelsea MA Fine Art and Goldsmiths BA Hons Fine Art.

Places she has exhibited include the Freud Museum, Arebyte Gallery and Gimpel Fils.

“Current work reflects my curiosity with the performativity of gender through an autobiographical lens. Using memories from adolescence, the work explores ‘transgressive’ activities, in this case smoking, and my relationship with traditionally ascribed activities like sewing.”

In the basement level Chrissie is joined by Brighton based artist/curatorYvette Driver of Little Papa Dollhouse, who created a glamorous 60s themed bar and lounge for SHG. *

‘Smoking, 2023’ film by Chrissie Stewart, in the Big Choke Bar, furnished with bespoke contemporary miniature dollhouse pieces by Yvette Driver, staging by Eldi Dundee

‘Smoking, 2023’ film by Chrissie Stewart, in the Big Choke Bar, furnished with bespoke contemporary miniature dollhouse pieces by Yvette Driver, staging by Eldi Dundee

A video of the video playing in situ will follow…

Chrissie Stewart on Instagram: @christine.stewart7

_{^{Staging by Eldi Dundee: fireplace ash and fakely-smoked rollies, real lipstick.}}

_{*The bar was commissioned by SHG’s curator after Small House’s October artist Rosemary Cronin imagined a swanky 60s cocktail lounge and disco for her (now postponed) ‘Valley of the Dolls’ exhibition. Eldi thought of Yvette Driver of Little Papa Dollhouse straight away. The decision to use it in Chrissie’s November ‘Acrid’ show instead came from the fact that we had all hoped that Chrissie and Rosemary’s Small House exhibitions would coincide with one another in the adjacent houses with their complimentary themes and because these artists frequently show work together, ever since meeting at UAL Chelsea a decade or so ago. Their overlapping exhibitions were to be a treble reunion of sorts – Eldi was with them on that same course. Rosemary even planned to launching a new cocktail for Valley of the Dolls, and we envisioned people making their own at home from her recipe, and enjoying a tipple together at the opening party (to be held online, since SHG lives in a private residence) – then Eldi suggested proposing to host the House and its opening party in the surrealist arts club/cocktail bar Vout-O-Reenee’s in real life, however, in the economic downturn, Eldi gave up her membership. This miniature cocktail bar made by Yvette Driver has a similar vibe to Vout-O-Reenee’s club, and this is entirely serendipitous – all elements of it came from the mind and memories of Yvette Driver.}

Yvette Driver on Instagram @LittlePapa_Dollhouse