This striking mural painting depicts a larger-than-life figure with a striking blue-toned face and distorted, sculptural body. The composition is framed by a brick wall, with various architectural and industrial elements adding visual interest. The work showcases a bold, stylized aesthetic, blending figural elements with abstract, geometric forms and patterns. The artist's distinctive technique, combining painterly brushwork and graphic, illustrative qualities, suggests a unique artistic vision grounded in the language of contemporary urban art. This provocative piece likely reflects the artist's commentary on the human condition within an industrialized, technological landscape. ...
Justin Fitzpatrick works across the mediums of painting, sculpture and text. His recent figurative paintings and sculptures draw on the tradition of metaphysic conceit poetry, where an analogy is set up between a metaphysical quality and a physical object. The more far-fetched the relationship is between the two terms, for example in John Donne’s ‘The Flea’, the more ornamental and imaginative the poem becomes. By highlighting this distance between two terms, and the creative energy used to connect them, our attention is focussed on the performative power of metaphor itself and how it transforms reality. Subjects of Fitzpatrick’s work include an expanding collection of archetypal characters viewed through the lens of class and sexuality: the chef, the waiter, the monk, the construction worker and the police officer. ...
