FISCHER MUSTIN
b. 1999, United KingdomFisher Mustin views painting as an integral part of identity and history. As such, there is important work to be done—not only in preserving painting but also in exploring its full potential. There is an ambiguity as to the intention behind the figures Mustin depicts in the works, conjuring a quiet sense of unease as well as alluding to the metaphysical presence of the artist as actor and conspirator. They offer an insight into a desperate dejected world of warped relationships between objects, subjects and their image.
Throughout Mustin’s work there is a dislocated approach to brushwork that weaves a thread between various moments in art history, borrowing from across different centuries. The effect across the canvas is one of discourse, alluding to a tension through the history of painting as a medium that captures and reflects.
Mustin is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, London (UK), in 2024. He was the recipient of the Freelands Foundation Painting Prize (2020) and the Edna Rose Weiss Award (2023).
Selected exhibitions: Yuppie, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2025; The Garden of Earthly Delights, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2025; A Room Hung with Thoughts: British Painting Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US), 2025; RA Schools Show 2024, Royal Academy Schools Studios and Weston Studio, London (UK), 2024; Three Years, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK), 2024; The Belly and The Guts, Alice Amati, London (UK), 2023; Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK), 2023; and Upside Down Bucket, PS MIRABEL, Manchester (UK), 2020.
Courtesy GRIMM
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