Aidan Doherty
Appearing in this year’s Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize, Doherty’s work has previously been exhibited at Saatchi’s New Sensations and at the Royal Academy Summer show. A recent graduate from Wimbledon College of Art, Doherty is interested in painting as a tool for investigating and decoding the detritus that surrounds us on a daily basis. Exploring the relationship between surface, pattern, form and geometry, he creates semi-abstract works, beginning with a single shape that crystallizes through his brushwork. Doherty has been previously shortlisted for the Celeste Art prize.
Level 5
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Painting
35cm x 30cm
Oil on linen
Geometric forms in jewel colours float suspended in space against the weathered black background of this painting. There exists a tension between the implied movement of these three satellites and their strictly horizontal planes, as though the squares are detached from the main painting, or a last-minute addition by a foreign hand. Tempered against the organic egg-like shapes in the background, Doherty in this work utilises basic forms to create a pivotal composition.
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