Artist : GL Brierley
Title : Untitled
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 90 x 80 cm


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In GL Brierley’s pictorial stages, we often witness simultaneously seductive and grotesque themes tilting over and collapsing into a sort of pantomime-like comedy. In addition to their representational quality, paint remains paint as material oscillating between a form of abstraction and figuration. Brierley symbolically plays with the term ‘base-matter’ as a word rooted in the term ‘mater’, which also means ‘mother’ in Latin and Greek, gracefully fusing two concepts: object and desire. Her exquisite oil paintings feature individual subjects, often appearing engaged in dialogue, positioned alongside fragments that perhaps resemble still life. The paint appears corporeal, organic and almost living, congealing as a result of technical alchemy, casting ambiguous folds in a unique materiality which simultaneously demonstrates a virtuosic use of light and shade. All pictorial elements are given the same ornamental treatment, which means that the viewer’s gaze freely roams across the entire image: filigree inlays in sharp angular shapes are applied, simulating a floor covering that may appear abruptly foreshortened. Broad brushstrokes rich in contrast generate a figurative element, perhaps punctuated with parasitic colour sequences that freely resembles an imaginary covering or garment. In sharp contrast, thick applications of colour dot the surface here and there in an almost violent act of embellishment. Brierley’s paintings serve as a stage for diverse forms of reconciliation and transformation between the male and female, mind and material, body and object.

GL Brierley is a British artist based in London. GL Brierley. She completed her Masters in visual arts at the College of Art in London and graduated with an M.F.A. from Goldsmith College, London. Her works have been presented in numerous exhibition internationally. And are placed in renowned cas numerous private collections.