PLEASE NOTE access to the Gallery will be via gate entrances on Kendal and Bartlett Streets due to the Bell Beats Music & Arts Festival Friday 2 October and Saturday 3 October.CHANGE OF HOURS Saturday 3 October. The Gallery will open 1.30pm to 7.30pm to align with the Festival. A free Bell Beats ticket is required to enter the Festival.
TitleTaking it offline
Year 2022
Medium acrylic on canvas
Dimensions 92 x 183cm
Artist Statement
Come with me on a journey into the inner life of my subjects.
These figures are usually alone – in many cases disoriented; in some, pathetically attempting to maintain their dignity – but when they are in groups they seem to be conversing in the language of collusion… or boardroom bullshit.
And yet there is enormous space for empathy. Underneath the suit and the un-beach-like posture many of my subjects look utterly lost. These are, or represent, the most powerful people in the world – and yet they seem to have no idea what they’re doing or how they got where they are - to their position of influence or ankle-deep in rising oceans (and quite possibly both).