David Gardner

David Gardner creates figurative paintings and drawings with an interrogation on his own queer body and its relationship to different spaces, both real and imagined. The body is always half concealed / half revealed, hiding and emerging behind veils, fences or flora. The images are staged to slowly reveal themselves, initiating an act of looking, one where the gaze must penetrate a boundary or a threshold through and into the picture plane. Colour is a core anchor in Gardner’s imagery, often very vibrant and glowing as if lit from within, radiating from the inside-out towards the viewer.