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
David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath
Ryan Driscoll
David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath, 2019
75 x 57cm
Saturn
The Weird Sisters
Ryan Driscoll
The Weird Sisters, 2020
70 x 50cm
Uranus
Uranus
Venus
Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas)
Ryan Driscoll
Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas), 2018
50 x 40.5cm
Lady of Sorrows
Ryan Driscoll
Lady of Sorrows, 2017-2019
48 x 37.5cm
Mars
Gallery Representation
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