Caroline Coon has never been one for subtlety—something her new exhibition, titled The Great Offender, points to. Curated by Peter Doig and Parinaz Magadassi, it is her first solo exhibition to be held in London, spanning works from the 1980s to 2019. Coon’s challenging, often sexually explicit work rubs up against binary conceptions of gender and challenges orthodoxy in ways that are particularly relevant today. A pioneering feminist painter whose work is only now being brought into the light, she was also a one-time manager for The Clash and groundbreaking music journalist for Melody Maker magazine during the 1980s. The exhibition of her paintings is on display at TRAMPS until 21 December.
