‘Pick it Out of Your Teeth Afterwards’ is a new body of painting and sculptural works by Izzie Beirne, imbued with references to imbalances of power, longing and safety. Beirne’s works come together to create narrative dialogues, each work is a piece in a puzzle for the viewer to decipher and assign meaning. The paintings allude to the filmic language from which they are plucked. For this body of work she has worked exclusively from the film ‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’ 1989 by Peter Greenaway, collecting screen grabs to paint and instill with new meaning.