Chris Gaynor

My primary concern lies within life writing: 'zographos'. It is the process of articulating the miracle of the cosmos and my existence within it, through an uninhibited and ever expanding form of calligraphy. It is a crucial part of my being and it grows and becomes larger as I do.
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My aim is to bypass the noetic experience by unselfconsciously coupling the raw material with physical incident.
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The work is an extension of my personal poetry; a new form for my references to take; an augmentation of my vocabulary.
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While brief choices are being made during the materialisation of the painting, the works are not goal-oriented; they're unsystematic and reject over analysis.
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The initial gesture paves the way for the rest of the work, seeing what has been brought into existence and responding to it accordingly - unselfconscious syntax that equates free flowing verse.
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Rather than offering a dissection of 'the mystery' through overt figuration, the work is an extension of the self; a study of where I am within space and time. It is a thesis, celebrating the breath, the poise and assertion of the Kouroi model within a flailing world.

Queensland College of Art, Australia (2021-2022)
Mentee of Leonard Brown, senior Australian painter (2021-ongoing)

Past:
Phoenix Gallery, Athens (December, 2022)

Upcoming:
Limassol, Cyprus (May, 2023)