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James Guppy is a contemporary Australian artist living in the small coastal town of Byron Bay in northern NSW. His medium of choice varies from painting to assemblage. His narratives use the traditions of western figurative painting to explore contemporary issues with a surreal and absurdist twist. These dramatic paintings and art works examine social issues through the lens of western art history. The paintings reference artists and traditions such as J.M. Turner, Piero della Francesca, Dutch Baroque painting and the Pre-Raphaelites.
James Guppy is intent on examining our secret inner lives. His relentless gaze will fix on the domestic, love and power, the body and our physical identity, gender, sexuality and taboos. His art ranges widely across the private dreams and nightmares of life in the twenty first century.
The artwork of James Guppy does not fit easily into the categories of western art. He is a figurative painter, a flower painter, a magic realist, but his paintings are postmodern and fetishistic. He is a surrealist and an absurdist, who deconstructs the traditions of western art to create intelligent engaging artwork that can haunt and transform the way we subsequently see the world around us.
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