‘Imperfect’ Figure Group Six from polytych, 2024
Oil, dry media and gloss on canvas
£5,000
About the Artist
Disabled contemporary painter Martin Kinnear (b. Burnley, Uk, based in London) is known for creating thematic shows about self-perception, imperfection and change informed by his experience of physical disability and social exclusion. Working from poems or ‘word sketches’, Kinnear slowly creates layered and contradictory paintings which explore the role of absences and ambiguity in formulating our self-concept. Through expressive figurative marks which communicate whilst also withholding narrative, Kinnear intends the visual consumption of his work to reveal the difference between what we appear to be and whom we are echoing Auden’s observation about ‘the flesh the mind insists is ours. He is best known for large-scale contemporary triptychs featuring optically layered and partially excavated oils, gloss, enamel, dry media and encaustic paints (e.g. Lethe {exh. Regeneration at The Bowes Museum County Durham}, 2022).
Other artworks by Martin Kinnear
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Martin Kinnear‘Imperfect’ Figure Group Five from polytych, 2024
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Martin Kinnear‘Imperfect’ Figure Group Three from polytych, 2024
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Martin Kinnear‘Imperfect’ Figure Group Two from polytych, 2024
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Martin Kinnear‘Imperfect’ Figure Group One from polytych
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Martin Kinnear‘Imperfect’ Figure Group Four from polytych, 2024
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