Urbane

Warnants’ recent autobiographical work explores her feelings of social dislocation. Raised in suburbia, she was sent to a private school where she was considered one of the ‘poorer’ attendees. Later, at art school, Warnants was deemed too middle-class. In recent years, the artist lives between Hackney and Peckham, two of the poorest areas of London, and works in a minimum wage factory job whilst simultaneously exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts and other prestigious galleries and institutions across the country and internationally. ‘Urbane’ is a series of works that illustrate this perplexity through the stereotypes and clichés of a country known for its rigid and outmoded class system.