Patrick Church’s new exhibition is called “I Tried.” The title is a confession. It is a declaration. This show is a personal look back at his work from 2017 to 2025. It traces his path not just as an artist, but as a person figuring out identity, intimacy, and survival.

The pieces are moments. Some are loud. Some are painfully quiet. They hold joy, desperation, flamboyance, love, shame, and resistance. They are like diary pages on stretched canvas. Garments are worn like armor. Surfaces are smeared with the fingerprints of someone always searching for connection, even in disconnection.

From the start, Church has used art to reflect himself back to himself. His work holds vulnerability, queerness, failure, and desire. Some of it is messy. Some of it is beautiful. Most of it is both.

As a self-taught artist, he never felt tied to traditional rules. He built a world where he could exist on his own terms. In this space, the performative and the painterly come together. There is hand-painted clothing, immersive installations, raw canvases covered in emotional residue. This exhibition gathers the many selves he has lived as over the years: the outsider, the performer, the survivor.

“I Tried” is an art exhibition and a live fashion painting presentation for London Fashion Week, done with curators Gone Rogue London and Solus Gallery. His artwork and hand-painted pieces will be available online.

Check it out below:

Images by TwoWing Photos