London
Gravity
Gravity considers the weight of the body and its relation to paint. The completed body of work will be presented in a solo exhibition in London, opening 18 July 2026, with public viewing continuing until 31 July in the East Court of Alexandra Palace. The exhibition will subsequently travel to Art Floor Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, with a private view on 28 September 2026. Only a selection is shown here.
Signed fine art print.
Professionally printed at A4 size and presented in a black wooden frame with an off-white window mount.
Framed size: approximately 25 x 35 cm.£55
Gravity is a forthcoming solo exhibition presenting a completed body of paintings that explore physical presence, transformation, and the relationship between the weight of the body and paint. The exhibition will open on 18 July 2026 in London and remain on public view until 31 July. The body of work will subsequently travel to Art Floor Gallery, Taipei, with a private view on 28 September 2026.
The Explanatory Gap is a forthcoming duo exhibition by Niah McGiff and Emmy Award-winning VFX artist Vladislav Solojov. Bringing together analogue painting and digital image-making, the exhibition explores parallel approaches to perception, embodiment and transformation through works developed in dialogue with one another.
Selected works from a larger body of paintings currently in development for the forthcoming duo exhibition.
My work concerns the idea that art cannot fully be verbally translated. I explore the distance between what is felt and what can be said. Philosopher Joseph Levine names this the “explanatory gap,” and my practice moves within that space, using material and gesture to approach what resists articulation.
Questions of belonging, emotional inheritance and self-perception shape the way I think about identity and psychological life. My practice has largely centred on figuration, using the body as a site to explore internal states and the tensions that emerge within relationships, memory and the self.
In many of my paintings the figure appears unstable or partially dissolving. I am interested in how the body can hold emotional weight without needing to describe a clear narrative. By allowing forms to break down or drift between representation and abstraction, the figure becomes a space where inner experience can surface in less controlled ways.
Fundamentally my practice is concerned with the materiality of paint itself. Through working and reworking the surface, I explore how gesture, colour and texture can carry emotional meaning where language begins to fall short.
Niah McGiff (b. 1999) is a London based artist whose paintings use the figure as a site of psychological and emotional inquiry.
She trained at the Essential School of Painting, graduating with distinction from the Foundation Diploma in 2019, before studying Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. She has exhibited widely across London and actively curates group exhibitions supporting emerging artists and community led initiatives.
McGiff was awarded First Place in the RISE Emerging Artist Competition and will present work at the Henley Festival in July 2026. Her current body of work, GRAVITY, will be shown in a solo exhibition in London this July, followed by a second presentation at Art Floor Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan in September, her first international showing.
She also recently curated and exhibited in Common Matter at One Navigator Square, Archway, London.
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