dhARTworld is pleased to present ROMANTIC TENSIONS, the first ever solo exhibition of prints and sculptures by Brianna Tosswill from May 23 to June 13, 2026.  The opening will take place Saturday May 23rd from 4 to 7 pm, with an Artist Talk scheduled for Thursday June 11th from 7 to 9 pm.

A printmaker through and through, Brianna Tosswill’s linocut-based work is intricate, built layer upon layer to create a self-reflexive world of many moving parts.  Deeply earnest and highly personal, the works in Romantic Tensions, use the visual language of romance novels, theatre sets, and games of chance to reconcile disparate feelings and gut reactions, all the while resisting cynicism and holding onto the highest of ideals.  Swoon.

Ever narrative driven, Tosswill has created three archetypes of herself, “like an author listening to their characters, I let them show me different ways to seek love.”  And the archetypes are: Brave Front, Head of Feelings and Spymaster, each showing up with differing perspectives, emotions and core tensions, to give love every chance to succeed, without compromising one’s truest self -- where three heads are better than one.

As a denouement the framing of each print centres Tosswill’s emotional messages by amplifying and echoing, each within their own psychological theatre stage.  With moving parts, elaborate backdrops and whimsical whirligig mechanisms, Romantic Tensions asks the viewer to ponder, to play with, and yes … to fall under the spell of.