Private View | Thursday 3 September 2026 | 6-8 pm
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present The Family Katz, London based artist Liorah Tchiprout’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In new paintings Tchiprout presents portraits of a fictional eminent Jewish family the Katzes and their social circle, based at their imagined home in Gunnersbury Park, London.
Marking a new development in her practice, Tchiprout paints from life, as well as from the study of her idiosyncratic dolls. In these new works, members of her invented coterie are cast from in-person sittings with friends and family, many hailing from London’s Jewish community. A keystone of her practice, Tchiprout’s dolls are small, hand-crafted mannequins based on both her inner circle and characters from literature and film. The resultant portraits blur the boundary between the closed-circuit world of the artist’s figurines and the dynamism of her living subjects.
