ALASTAIR GORDON

LIST OF ARTWORKS

July.16 - September.16.2020

alastair Gordon

Born in 1978, Alastair Gordon lives and works in London, and earned a MA in Fine Arts at Wimbledon School of Art. My paintings strongly reference a form of trompe l’oeil painting that proliferated in the seventeenth century in Northern Europe: a specific form of illusionism called quodlibet (what you will). From here I paint an array of selected objects to appear as ‘pinned’ or ‘taped’ in low relief on a wooden surface. My approach to painting is deeply rooted in an historical tradition of trompe l’oeil illusionism. I find this an ideal vehicle to explore more contemporary questions about the function of images today, the processes of painting, of illusion, representation and how artists utilise their source materials.