George Rouy

  • , After Eight, 2023
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    225 x 150 cm
    88 1/2 x 59 in
  • , Faked Real, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    190 x 300 cm
    75 x 118 in
  • , Stars Beneath my Feet, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    210 x 240 cm
    82 1/2 x 94 1/2 in
  • , Savaged Breast, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    210 x 240 cm
    82 1/2 x 94 1/2 in
  • , The Core of Human Condition, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    210 x 240 cm
    82 1/2 x 94 1/2 in
  • , Drop Dead Gorgeous... With Teeth, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    220 x 190 cm
    86 1/2 x 75 in
  • , Screaming From a Place Behind the Lungs, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    240 x 210 cm
    94 1/2 x 82 1/2 in
  • , Duality, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    220 x 190 cm
    86 1/2 x 75 in
  • , Collections, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    220 x 190 cm
    86 1/2 x 75 in
  • , Asking Beautiful Questions in Unbeautiful Moments, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    200 x 170 cm
    78 1/2 x 67 in
  • , Fire in the Head, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    200 x 170 cm
    78 1/2 x 67 in
  • , The Shape of Absence, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    200 x 170 cm
    78 1/2 x 67 in
  • , Siren, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    200 x 170 cm
    78 1/2 x 67 in

George Rouy (b. 1994, Kent, UK) lives and works in London. Rouy’s approach to the body - and his pursuit of painting - is one of contradiction, harmony and perpetual transformation, criss-crossing gender, form and disposition. His work is a fever dream of amorphous, fluid embodiment: rhapsodic portraits of 21st century desire, of physical dissonance, mystery and secrecy, ecstasy and turmoil, proximity and distance.  

The work is liberated from established ways of being. In its place is an examination of the psychic effects of what encounters mean and feel like, drawing equally on the here-and-now, digital culture  and the industrial  advances of our age, as they do from primordial expression and the classical demands of colour and form.

The human figure has long preoccupied artists of all times; its story dominates the history of art. In its imagination and in its image-making we find clues to how artists have grappled and engaged with the political and socio-cultural moods and attitudes of their moment. We are in a time of renewed and committed interest in figurative painting and Rouy uses the figure - constrained and liberated - as many-sided prism to examine and interrogate the contemporary crucibles of gender, fiction and technology. 


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