Joe Grieve: One’s Own Mystery
5 September - 2 October, 2025
PV: Thursday, 4 September, 6-8pm
LBF Contemporary is delighted to present One’s Own Mystery, an exhibition of works by London-based artist Joe Grieve. The exhibition is a meditation on the unseen, the quiet forces that shape how we experience the world, both within and beyond perception. Created in his North West London studio, housed in the altar of a former church, this new series reimagines landscape as more than just place. The works move beyond the literal to explore a non-physical realm that lies beyond immediate perception. The paintings explore nature as a living force - something that holds us, teaches us, and reveals a wisdom beyond language or logic.
Grieve invites us to recognise the complex systems that surround and connect us, whether visible or not. He draws on both spiritual and scientific ideas - intuition and memory, electromagnetic fields, mycelial networks, and quantum particles.
There is a quiet holiness in paying attention to the land and standing still long enough to notice. At its core, the exhibition celebrates mystery, inviting us to slow down, look closely, and sense the invisible threads woven in, through, and all around us.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an essay by London-based academic and writer Matthew James Holman.