In the woods, 2021 Painting

Influences are taken from Die Brucke where the nude was repeatedly at the crux of the group work, for the nude figures embodied moral and sexual freedom, unconstrained by stultifying social conventions – Here I’m examining the nude or semi-clad nude once more and the male gaze, the idea of the bathers. My work is trying to create conversation for the viewer, it is the viewer which brings their own ideas and thoughts along to the work. I am trying to challenge intertextuality – almost become post-structuralist and re-examine or redefine artworks of the past and still examine that of the male gaze where it becomes present within an artwork – changing and challenging ideas of the past. The artwork is in two canvas frames, both 4 x 6 ft in size.