Explorer 2003 oil on canvas 140
x 110 cm. 2002 Gallery
Click the previews to see the full image.
These three works evoke a Romantic historicism from which homoerotic visions and readings have been traditionally drawn. I set out to consider relationships to notions of beauty and the sublime, fear and decay in ambiguous, floating immateriality. The struggle for survival underwater is a metaphor for life as a heroic journey: into the abyss!
This work is in contrast to work in my 2003 gallery addressing the same erotic impulse toward the object of desire through contemporary electronic media.
Explorer 2003 oil on canvas 140
x 110 cm.
Freedom 2003 oil on canvas 140 x
110 cm.
Escape 2003 oil on canvas 140 x 110
cm.
These works address cultural overlays and cultural hybridity.
Culture - New shirt and Tie 2002 oil
on canvas 200 x 200cm.
Ideal Beauty 2002 acrylic, card
and oil on canvas 200 x 200cm.
