Sweet Surrender: Grace Lee, Nicolina Morra, Rebecca Storm

The fusion of the three artists highlights their distinct approaches, revealing how each transforms their personal memories and desires into visual language. Together, their works evoke a sense of exploration and discovery, inviting viewers to interpret and dive into the unknown.

Nicolina Morra’s work examines the intersections of pop culture, consumerism, and spiritual longing, drawing parallels between religious iconography and contemporary fandom. Through references to UFO imagery, celebrity culture, and collective spectacle, her paintings consider how belief systems form around media figures and mass-produced objects, transforming them into sites of devotion, grief, and transcendence.

Grace Lee works with recurring motifs and found imagery to construct open-ended visual narratives shaped by ambiguity and emotional contrast. They use animals to operate as psychological stand-ins, symbols of loyalty, distance, projection, and tension. Her paintings balance humour and unease, allowing familiar imagery to shift between stability and disruption.

Rebecca Storm’s psychologically charged paintings turn inward, using still-life arrangements and symbolic fragments such as broken glasses, tarot cards, obscured faces, and domestic objects to reflect on memory, identity, and emotional containment. Her work considers how vulnerability is managed, concealed, and repeated over time, where clarity and loss often arrive in the same gesture.