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.
A Grand Day Out
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Painting
35cm x 30cm
Doherty introduces into this composition a shade of yellow not unlike that of an imagined Dulux paint, where the bold, solid shapes of the painting’s foreground form a stark contrast with the earthy colours and textures of the work’s background. The blue bars of the foreground contain an implication, or potential for movement, appearing to be in a state of flux, whilst simultaneously being chained down by its yellow shadow.
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