JOHNNY IZATT-LOWRY
b. 1995, United KingdomJohnny Izatt-Lowry looks at the world from a place of remove. With each of his paintings there is a dream-like quality that implies we may have seen it before. His subjects are often quotidian; a bird, a log, a field. Things we ‘know’ but which under his direction constantly elude us through their ambiguous materiality.
Using a sparse palette of muted hues and greyscale shades, Johnny creates his images by rubbing dry pigments directly into onto a coarse fabric ground. The resulting quality of haziness upholds the dreamlike unreality of the subjects, as though the viewer is encountering them indirectly.
Johnny Izatt-Lowry (b. 1995, Durham) lives and works in London. He holds a BFA in Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art and MFA Fine Art from Slade School of Art.
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