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Artist Kisses Subject
Artist Kisses Subject by Sophia Hewson. Oil on board.
Sophia Hewson has painted herself (RHS) with Missy Higgins (LHS), a popular ARIA-award winning singer/songwriter and actress.
I've been thinking about the proximity of the orgasm to death and spiritual revelation. In my work I've been considering the orgasm as a kind of transcendence, and using metaphors like "orgasming against something plastic" to explore the human experience of when revelation falls short and faith is not found. In this painting it is the constructed nature of the intimacy that suggests ecstasy is just out of reach. I wanted to create something equally portrait, self-portrait, and an examination of post-feminist self-objectification.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
Artist Kisses Subject
Artist Kisses Subject by Sophia Hewson. Oil on board.
Sophia Hewson has painted herself (RHS) with Missy Higgins (LHS), a popular ARIA-award winning singer/songwriter and actress.
I've been thinking about the proximity of the orgasm to death and spiritual revelation. In my work I've been considering the orgasm as a kind of transcendence, and using metaphors like "orgasming against something plastic" to explore the human experience of when revelation falls short and faith is not found. In this painting it is the constructed nature of the intimacy that suggests ecstasy is just out of reach. I wanted to create something equally portrait, self-portrait, and an examination of post-feminist self-objectification.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)