Description
‘I am the Knight’ by Andrew Swarbrick
Artist: Andrew Swarbrick
Title: ‘I am the Knight’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 39.75″ x 30″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2022
About the Artwork:
“This painting speaks of the feedback loop between the audience and creatives. As ideas become cultural memes and ingrained in our collective psyche they effect those charged with creating them. We have ideas about how fiction is @supposed to be@ and can even find ourselves within it, and defend our ideas about it as we would defend our ideas of ourselves. Everyone sure they are right, everyone sure the other is wrong, the whole time the thing we argue over is a pastiche of us, fighting with ourselves while they desperately try to give us what we desire, what we crave, so we come back to the table to be devoured.” – Andrew Swarbrick
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Andrew Swarbrick based in north Canterbury, New Zealand has been working in oils for over 13 years. His work is an exploration of mental and existential states, philosophy and spirituality, conveying moods and story with striking images from his imagination. His heavy use of symbolism in the surreal worlds he creates only adds o the layers of these multi-faceted works. Ranging from the fun, playful and mundane, which can be enjoyed as merely striking images, to the deeper layered visions to be explored as deep oceans of existentialism, absurdism and humanism.