TRISTAN PIGOTT. "Melted Desire", oil on diabond, signed Pigott and dated 2018 a tergo.

23,5 x 19,5 cm
With frame 34 x 29,5 cm

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Tristan Pigott (b. 1990) lives and works in London, UK. Pigott holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Fine Art (2017-2019) and a BA from Camberwell College of Arts (2009-2012).

Pigott’s practice spans painting and most recently, sculpture. Pigott’s paintings are very deliberate and specific combinations of visual reference and inferred meaning. He primarily works with figure studies and Vanitas inspired still-life which include decisive arrangements of people, objects or furnishings. Pigott is interested in ego, identity and the modern condition of acute self awareness. His paintings offer a commentary on the complexities and pitfalls of living in an increasingly self-absorbed culture. It is a subject which Pigott approaches with a rye wit and knowing use of the comically absurd. Combining hyper realism with a photoshop meets painterly abstraction, he reflects the tension that exists between outward portrayal and inner reality.

Notable exhibitions include: ‘Listen to the Hum’, ALICE BLACK, London (2019); ‘Slippery Gaze’, ALICE BLACK, London (2018); ‘Juicy Bits’, Cob Gallery, London (2017); ‘Dead Natural’, Cob Gallery (2015); ‘Yellow Sun: The New Contemporaries’, Lagos/Port Harcourt, Nigeria (2014) and ‘Hyperion’, New York, USA (2016). In 2015 Pigott was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and featured in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

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