Gale Maze Painting

Painting women is scary, life drawing classes even more so… I’m a privileged cisgender white bloke, the last thing I want to do is project my awkwardness onto a situation, being a cocky prick is even worse… I find humour helps to de-escalate conflict, but its far from safe, and can easily backfire, if I sit there imagining everyone in the room is naked, nothing gets done. There is something in the process of drawing naked people though, its like lifting weights, it adds strength for when I want to create other art work… so I keep going back week after week. This is about that, in some way, it’s also informed from years working in commercial kitchens as a chef and on building sites all around Australia as a carpenter and having to stand up for my beliefs in the right to self-determination and the importance for people to not only be safe, but to feel safe. I set this canvas on fire in the process of making this, it helped bring out the face from behind, the male gaze.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:28 W x 22 H x 1.2 D in

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