14.03.25 - 12.04.25

Shipton is delighted to begin its second year of programming with No Destination, Rebecca Foster-Clarke’s second solo exhibition in London.

Foster-Clarke’s No Destination explores the tension between humour and horror. Drawing inspiration from cinema, she borrows the visual language of filmic suspense to articulate the everyday dread of womanhood. Her compositions echo psychological thrillers and surrealist horror, where the banal is always on the verge of becoming monstrous.

The exhibition title, No Destination, references the Final Destination films, where fate is inescapable and survival is simply a delay of the inevitable. Like the films’ cyclical horror, Foster-Clarke’s subjects exist in unresolved narratives, caught between control and chaos. Informed by Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, Foster-Clarke’s work toys with the grotesque, stretching femininity to its limit.

Without resolution, No Destination is caught between a laugh and a scream—and if there is no destination, is there ever an end?

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Image 1:

No Destination Install View, 2025

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No Destination Install View, 2025

Image 3:

Grimalkin, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 25.4 x 27.9 cm

Image 4:

Deadeye, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 20.3 x 27.9 cm

Image 5:

I Can See Right…THROUGH YOU!, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 59.5 cm

Image 6:

A Stray, 2025, Oil on Wood, 40.5 x 51 cm

Image 7:

Shoot Your Shot, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 60.9 x 50.8 cm

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Tornado, 2025, Oil on Wood, 30 x 40.5 cm

Image 9:

Looking Glass, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 51 x 41 cm

Image 10:

Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm