Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas)

Ryan Driscoll

BornNationalityBased In
1992BritishCorby
Biography

Ryan Driscoll’s portraits – inspired just as much by modern photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Dora Maar as they are by painters like Rossetti and Bronzino – co-opt Late Renaissance painting techniques and compositions to explore queered perceptions of beauty, love and death. Queer experience is communicated through Driscoll’s uses of the rich symbolic language and intertextuality found in Mannerism painting, in which every element and object holds great significance and allegory. His work also invokes Greek and Roman mythology, melodrama and fantasy to subvert fixed notions of gender. In his paintings, predominantly crafted with oil on wooden board and using himself as a life model, represent androgynous, fluid figures who are able to assert both tenderness, fragility and power. ...

Selected Artworks
Mars
Ryan DriscollMars, 2020
41 x 31cm
Saturn
Ryan DriscollSaturn, 2020
68 x 51cm
Uranus
Ryan DriscollUranus, 2020
68 x 51cm
Uranus
Ryan DriscollUranus, 2020
41 x 31cm
Venus
Ryan DriscollVenus, 2017
90 x 75cm
Gallery Representation
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