All That You Can’t Leave Behind, but Probably Should [2020 Vision], has been selected as a finalist in the Percival Portrait Painting Prize.
Painted over an incomplete and abandoned self portrait from 2011, this work did not begin as a self-portrait, but rather as a response to the year that was 2020; focusing more on the when, what, and how, than the who.
During the 12 months this canvas was reworked, the painting, much like our day to day lives, started and stopped on multiple occasions, capturing the conflict and consumption, alongside the anxiety and tension, of both a challenging and uncertain, yet transformational period.
All That You Can’t Leave Behind, but Probably Should [2020 Vision]
Acrylic, spray paint, oil stick and charcoal on canvas. 122cm x 200cm.
