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Plenty of fish Painting

Keith Pointing

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 17.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.5 D in

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Fish-like figures with multiple breasts gaze at the viewer from a subaquatic world. These creatures, with their huge glossily botoxed pouting lips and multi-coloured eyes, float above a single shell. Two small bubbles float from the shell, which just reveals a tendon of flesh. These fantastical anthropomorphic invertebrates are like escapees from Bosch’s The garden of earthly delights, and each looks at the viewer with a variety of expressions, perhaps reminding us of our conflicted relationship with the animal world. The mixture of naturalistic and cartoonish is meant to convey our unsteady understanding of our condition. "Some of his paintings are so imaginative that you sometimes feel that you are flicking through a Dr Seuss book, but Pointing’s pieces are not aimed at young viewers. Have a closer look at ‘Plenty of Fish’, 2018. Here there is such a clever and witty play around the title and the female organs of the fish." Art critic Tammy Woodrow 7/08/2023

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:17.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.5 D in

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He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Middlesex University and has exhibited in the ICA in London and the Künstlerhaus, Vienna. Prints of his drawings from his book The Inkspot Monologues which sold worldwide and were exhibited in the Freud Gallery in London. He uses surrealism and humour to satirise the human condition, environmental justice and societal issues. He works primarily in oil paints and he uses motifs and layers of iconography from the natural, the classical world and visual memory. In each work, he experiments using the language of form, colour, shape, space, and volume. These works explore the dichotomies of childhood and adulthood, the conscious and unconscious, and the seen and unseen in various emphasis and combinations.  Biography He exhibited paintings with the Henry Boxer Gallery, London, alongside Scottie Wilson and George Grosz, the Espacio Gallery, 2017, Shoreditch, London, the Churchgate Gallery, Porlock, 2018, curated by artist David Harrison (Victoria Miro Gallery), alongside other artists, including Peter Doig, Issac Julien CBE RA, and Abigal Lane. In 2022 he exhibited in the Bargehouse, London, the Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, and Muse!, in the Candid Arts Gallery, London, the Bargehouse, London, 20023, Ultra Modern, Fox Yard Gallery, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Surreal Art at the Phantasmal Gallery, Bath. The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, Derbyshire, 2024

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