Philip Gurrey
The work of Scotish painter Philip Gurrey (born in 1984!!) reminds me a lot of Jenny Saville's. His beautifully deranged portraits are both fascinating and revolting. Faces cut apart and messily stitched back together. Eyes swollen over and oozing.
My drawing teacher in college told me that if i wanted a portrait to be interesting i needed to exaggerate an aspect of the person in an unrealistic or off-putting way. He must have been under similar tutelage.
posted by Rackk and Ruin at
19.4.09
5 Comments:
wow...these are really great
Those are beautiful, I bet seeing the color in person is spectacular.
Philip Gurrey's latest show is 'The Stations of the Cross' in London, Opening night February 12th until March 4th 2010.
St Andrews Church, Fulham, London, W14 9SX
Here's a link to the work:
http://www.artslant.com/lon/events/show/89183-stations-of-the-cross
Six of the fifteen works on show in London have already gone...if you want to buy one you need to get in touch with the church hosting the exhibition by emailing fathermartin@hotmail.co.uk
Anonymous is right!
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