Untitled (Men Leading Unrideables)

Artist Charles Avery (Oban, Scotland, born 1973)

Date2007

Mediumpencil & gouache on card

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsFrame Size: 122 x 166cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 2008 with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland and the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 04

Object numberABDAG014491

Keywords

Other Titles

Men Leading Beasts

About MeAlthough he works across a range of media, Charles Avery is perhaps most admired as a draughtsman and in both 2004 and 2006 he was nominated for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. In 2007 he was one of the six artists selected to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale, where this work was shown.

His art is characterised by formal beauty, humour and a spirit of philosophical enquiry. He cites William Blake, P.G. Wodehouse, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Beuys and Joseph Kosuth as formative influences on his work. However the most important influence has been his Scottish upbringing: Avery grew up in the Inner Hebrides and its landscape and myths have also had a profound effect on his work, as with his epic Islanders project, in which over a ten year period he has described the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island inspired by his childhood. This culminated in a one man show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2008, in which this work also featured.

Exhibitions

Gallery 04 - Imagined Landscapes