LINDA LENCOVIC

The Goose Tree (Diptych)

$1,885.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

The title of this diptych, The Goose Tree, comes from the medieval belief that Barnacle Geese grew from barnacles rather than hatching from eggs. Bestiaries showed them emerging from shells and hanging from branches, blurring boundaries between flora, fauna, and the unknown.

This work brings together earthy terracotta stoneware and fragile porcelain, highlighting the tension between their contrasting qualities - rough and smooth, dark and light. Porcelain pushing through the brown clay, exposing what lies beneath. The push and pull of the clay mirrors an interior landscape shaped by ideas of race, normality, gender, and the lingering shadows of violence.

Porcelain becomes a material expression of the histories carried in the body, resurfacing in ways that are sometimes painful and always unpredictable. What emerges is vulnerable and resilient, fragmented yet beautifully alive.

Dimensions: 12.6"H x 7.9"D and 9.8"H x 5.5"D

Material: Stoneware and Porcelain

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The Goose Tree (Diptych)

Linda Lencovic, 2026
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Artist Statement

Linda Lencovic’s work explores identity, race, and belonging through moments where boundaries blur and understanding shifts. Drawing from multi‑ethnic roots, she examines the tension between self and society and invites viewers to doubt fixed realities and the notion of one truth.


Her process is intimate and physical, shaped by the push and pull between hand and clay as forms gradually emerge. Chance plays an active role: marks emerge unexpectedly, shaped by the unpredictable nature of the materials and process. Each is
met with a decision—preserve, erase, amplify—forming part of an ongoing dialogue between control and uncertainty. This tension is embedded in the visual language of the work, guiding its final form.

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About the Artist

Born in Canada, Linda Lencovic lives and works in East Sussex. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2006). Her work is held in collections across the UK and internationally, and she has exhibited widely, including group shows at Christie’s London, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Freud Museum, and Garboushian Gallery. She was shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize (2007), Barbican Surreal Competition (2010), and FRINGEMK Painting Prize (2010).

Artist cv

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REPRESENTATION
McCully & Crane, Rye
Thrown Contemporary, London
The Chancery Rosewood, Art Library, London

EXHIBITIONS
2026
Sotheby’s | FiredUp4, London – London Craft Week 2026 – Secret Ceramics
Vessels + Sticks, Toronto – Porcelain Reconsidered
2025
Electro Studios | Fresh Salad Art , St. Leonards-on-Sea – Pylos
APT Gallery, London – Between Two Worlds
Christie’s | FiredUp4, London – London Craft Week 2025 – Secret Ceramics
2024
Linden Hall Studio, Deal – Winter Show
Pictorem Gallery, Kafka Projects, London – Fight, Flight or Freeze
2023
Thrown Contemporary, London – Winter Exhibition
Rye Society of Artists, Rye – Summer Exhibition
Electro Studio, St. Leonards – Summer Exhibition
2022
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings – Hastings Open
2021
Hastings Contemporary, Hastings – A Generous Space
2013
Transition Gallery, London – Lunar Sea
2012
Chapel Gallery, Lancashire – The Uncanny
Greenwich, London – Out Of The Stable
Pie Factory, Margate – Water Cure
Cultivate, London – Little Benefits
2011Solo show
Art Work Space, London – Magic, Madness or Miracle

Group shows
Freud Museum, London – 25th Anniversary Auction
Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle – Answers on the Front of a Postcard
Spring Place, London – Big Deal Sexy 100
Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle – Summer Exhibition
Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles – Polemically Small, curated by Edward Lucie
Smith,
catalogue essay
Art & Design, Barcelona – Wallpaper
Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle – nine: An Exhibition of New Work By Nine Emerging
Contemporary Artists
SCOPE Art Fair, Opus Art Gallery, New York
2010
Barbican, London –Surreal Competition (Shortlisted)
FRINGEMK Painting Prize (Shortlisted), London
Bow Arts, London – Bow Arts Open 10
Mile End Pavilion, London – Melt Art Fair
242 Gallery, London – A Night – There Lay the Days Between
2009
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London – Storm
Benjamin Franklin House, London – Kill no more pigeons than you can eat
2008
No ID Gallery, London – Lost Girls
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London – Lust and Luxuria
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London – Truth and Lies
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation & Iniciativa Colectiva, Miami – A Latin Electronic
+ Art Experience
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London – Lunacy (On the Leap Year)
2007
Solo show
Little Mountain Studios, Vancouver – Held In A Queue – catalogue essay
Group shows
Celeste Art Prize (Shortlisted), London.
Kensington Market, Toronto – La Moustache
Orkney Isles, Scotland- PixelPops Group Open
Hope Lounge, New York – La Moustache

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