London-based artist Jack McGarrity is originally from the West of Scotland. He trained at The Glasgow School of Art and The Royal Drawing School with residencies at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, having been awarded the Richard Ford Award, and in Florence for the John Kinross Award.
For this body of work, McGarrity has again been observing the everyday with many images drawn from the immediate environs of his studio and flat but intertwined with multi-layered narratives. Considering how different scenes can be depicted in the one image whilst retaining a cohesive whole, he employs collage as a way of disrupting the idea of the picture plane. Series has become an important factor in his painting with familiar motifs reappearing in different works. The images and motifs have been drawn from the area McGarrity grew up in Scotland and found in previous drawings. Combining these familiar motifs with subjects from mass culture, he blurs the line between public and personal.
31 янв 2023
