Meet the two newest artists on display
The two newest artists showing at the gallery are Cristabelle Jégard and Jason Stirland
The Girls in the Green by Cristabelle Jégard
Cristabelle Jégard paints people — in all their wild contradictions, inner tensions, and tender relations to the world. Using strong outlines and an expressionist painterly vocabulary, her pieces think through how to best bring inner life out onto the canvas. Eyes may be the window to the soul, but Jégard also emphasises hands to convey a broad range of ‘undercover’ emotions, from shyness and reticence, to hope and curiosity. Her work shines with personality, with Jégard blocking colour in surprising ways that always lead back to the story of the scene. The contradictions in colour and form displays a ‘wise naivety’ in her technique, where bold lines and larger-than-lifer proportions convey a depth and narrative otherwise inaccessible.
Pink Flowers by Cristabelle Jégard
Hallway 1/10 by Jason Stirland
What happens when you try to use photography to rebuild a memory from scratch? Jason Stirling explores just that, using CGI technology to create haunting 3D environments. Ghostly domestic assemblages fade in from black, as if setting the stage ready for actors to inhabit and play out a scene from life. Hallways, offices, doorways — Stirling depicts the corridors of the mind and what it remembers through photographs that are beguiling in their surreality. At one point we’re taken through a hallway at a tilted angle from below, who’s eyes are we looking through? It almost recalls the perspective of the young Danny from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980’s film ‘The Shining’, zooming through an empty Overlook Hotel. Stirland’s uncanny augmented reality recalls a spectrum of techniques from painterly pointillism to cutting edge technology, with his work gaining recognition from notable institutions such as D&AD and the Association of Photographers (AOP).
Ascendancy 1/10 by Jason Stirland
