Blackbird Rook and General Assembly are pleased to present Soft Grip, a group exhibition examining the female body as a site of tension - between softness and strength, intimacy and control, tenderness and pressure. Featuring works by Kathryn Armitage, Kate Burling, Jenna Gribbon, Hannah Murgatroyd, Aimee Parrott, Sarah Pickstone, Sarah Slappey, Zoe Spowage, C. Lucy R. Whitehead, and Eleni Zervou, the exhibition brings together painters who work with the body not as symbol or object, but as something lived, tested, stretched, imagined.