Jan Gatewood, ‘Internal Empire', installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Rose Easton, London.
Jan Gatewood’s second exhibition at Rose Easton comprises drawings and sculptures. In Internal Empire, Gatewood imagines his inner life as a landscape, an anecdotal journey through personal and historical narratives exploring social histories, cultural symbols and the stories that constitute the artist’s interiority. Highly textural, layered drawings are in dialogue with soft, toy-shaped sculptures, subverting material and iconographic hierarchies while questioning the ways in which we consume, reproduce and engage with images. Contrasting references drawn from art history, pop culture, cultural heritage and folklore are appropriated and revisited, offering kaleidoscopic perspectives on authorship and theft in art-making. Please find the...
