Lot 96 - Gavin Dobson - Il Drink to Him

ARTIST INFO

About 

Gavin is an artist based in East London. Originally from the North East of England, he trained in Fine Art at Middlesex University specialising in painting. Alongside his painting, Gavin is also an experienced screen printer. Gavin tends to keep his paintings loose and expressive, using fluid movements and textures to create engaging and lively pieces which thoughtfully lead the viewer to a chosen narrative. In recent years Gavin’s practice has focused in exploring homosexuality and the various subcultures which surround it, looking into the expectations and stereotypes which gay men face and how in turn this can affect ones mental health. His paintings are loose and expressive tackling the emotional highs and lows of being a gay man in contemporary Britain. Queer culture exists beyond a week at Pride and it has a proud and sadly unearthed history which in turn has affected notions surrounding masculinity/ femininity and indeed what it means to be gay. 

Education 

BA Fine Art Middlesex University 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2023. Kink - East Art Gallery 
2023. Wild Thoughts - The Lido Stores 
2022. Just Be Nice - East London Art Gallery 
2022. Sugarcube ll - The Lido Stores 
2022. The Art Car Boot Fair 
2022. Folkstone Art Gallery - The Open Call 
2022. Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries 
2022. Focus 22 - Design Centre Chelsea 
2022. Art Shop - White Paper Pen 
2022. The Hoxton Hotel - Southwark 
2022. Louder and Prouder - Brunswick Gallery 
2022. Queer Frontiers - Artiq 
2022. Contemporary British Painting 3 - Bermondsey Project Space 
2022. Leaf - The Artists Friend, Box Park 
2022. Design Centre London - Chelsea 
2022. The Affordable Arts Fair - Hampstead 
2021. Choose Love - Soho Revue 
2021. Satelittes - Rise Art 
2021. The Other Art Fair - Saatchi 
2021. The Affordable Art Fair - Battersea 
2020. Twelve days of Christmas - Artiq 
2020. Choose Love Auction - Printclub London 
2020. Queer Frontiers - Artiq 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

Perfect bodies in paradise conditions. Pools, ponds, lidos, are places to work out or to relax and gaze at the surrounding beauty whilst floating weightlessly in a sea of blue. They’re also meeting places. Speedos, shorts, six-packs. A glance of a muscular back - wet - as it strains to heave its owner out of the pool. Who is watching who? 

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