Requiem for the Beast.  French transforms the desanctified church into an intimate, unsettled landscape of memory and inheritance. Grass etched canvases littered with found objects drawn from the artist’s own life—fragments of past relationships, remnants of heartbreak, relics of former selves. These artefacts serve not only as personal traces but as emotional residues, tender and unresolved.

 

Figures haunt the space: a nun on her knees, a suicide bomber caught in stillness.. These sculptural forms inhabit states of suspended ritual—part prayer, part performance—each confronting the tension between sanctity, loss, and the complex inheritance of faith. French’s crystal sculptures bloom with flowers, delicate yet sharp.

 

On the walls, cast hands bearing Indian symbols speak to the artist’s heritage—Indian and Welsh, Catholic and Hindu, queer and devout—intersecting histories inscribed on the body. This work does not seek to resolve identity but to hold its contradictions: a raw negotiation between belonging and alienation, tenderness and violence, belief and betrayal.

 

Requiem for the Beast is not a mourning, but a gesture of remembrance, a refusal to forget, and a reckoning with what it means to carry many pasts in one body.