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Archive1977, Bromsgroove, United Kingdom
Project yourself into the eyes of another and watch yourself masturbating, laugh if it seems funny, cry if it upsets or masturbate if it excites you; so, who will come first?
Situated between an embrace of vulgarity in contemporary culture, and a nostalgia for a lost mode of figuration in painting, my work establishes a place of intersection between the sublime possibilities in painting, and the closed, crude nature of pornography.
The paintings touch themes of eroticism, sexuality, transgression, beauty and identity which threaten to overwhelm the canvas and its painterly sensitivity, the gentleness of touch and the craftsmanship applied to its materiality.
I make portraits that are nostalgic for the future; charged with anxiety and a form of embarrassed humor with bodies of imminent sexuality. I attempt to look inwardly to a place outside of consciousness and continuity, yet somewhere nonetheless familiar. The resulting paintings appear to preserve the absence of time as opposed to time itself, purporting to possess a certain haunting, even uncanny quality.
 Gavin Tremlett, Untitled, 2007, charcoil, graphite and oil on paper, 45 x 39,8 cm |
