Margaret Koval

MARGARET KOVAL is a figurative painter whose work presents images of public spaces that challenge notions of normalcy and defamiliarise the everyday. Her lush, visceral paintings frequently employ visual cues associated with surveillance photography - high angles, obscured views, and security lighting - to evoke both unease and heightened awareness in the viewer. This sense of instability is further reinforced by the physical quality of the paintings themselves. Koval’s singular technique gives the surfaces of her works the appearance of tapestries or needlepoints. This slippage between media activates a sense of the uncanny and underscores her perspective on the liminal nature of contemporary life.

Koval received her MA from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2010.