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.
Jumping Geoffrey
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Painting
40cm x 34cm
Oil on linen
Reminiscent of a primitive woodcut, this painting uses subdued, earthy tones to create an unstable totem-like structure suspended in the middle of the inky blue canvas. The reoccurring and repetitive motif of the prism forms a structure which splits the foreground into two halves, with the expectation of the near-perfect geometric forms threatening to topple before us, on a horizontal plane that is suspended in space.
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