Gareth Morgan – Masks [2009]

Gareth Morgan was born in Kettering, United Kingdom in 1978; he lives and works in Bishops Stortford. He was educated during 1997-2000 at Goldsmith’s College, University of London (Fine Art BA Hons).

“My work tells stories through comic strips and paintings. It deals with themes of alienation and loneliness, and the fantasy this breeds. My most recent pieces are populated by characters wearing homemade masks, and crude cardboard and parcel taped bodies – as if inhabiting an imaginary space when in the safety of their own homes. Adopting a technique used in traditional cell-animation, I paint on the back of clear sheet Perspex. My style is deliberately simple and un-expressive to highlight the stories being told and their emotional power.”

See: http://www.garethrobot.com/

[Acrylic on Plexiglas, 205 x 155 cm]