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Born 1965 in UK
The works came from a questioning of the act of making a painting and looking at this compulsive process in relation to fetishistic behaviour.
The fleshy quality of the paint is alive and as it is poured it congeals, wrinkles and alchemically reacts. Amidst this unruliness, glazes are used to detail and lovingly cherish the resulting object/subject in its state of becoming, like the dressing of a doll. Recognisable motifs are added; lace, fur, icing-sugar and wooden furniture inlay. Out of the live organic paint emerges a “figure” that hovers liminally between abstract and figuration, success and failure, seduction and repulsion, the comic and the grotesque. The “figures” feel as if they have been displayed. Yet there is pathos, as if they have not yet been fully born, though still attempting to appeal to the commodity fetishism of our world.
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 GL Brierley, Matersatz, 2009, 10 x 11.5 inches, oil on wood |
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 GL Brierley, Frillamina, 2009, 10 x 11.5 inches, oil on wood |
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 GL Brierley, Jiggy Jilly, 2009, 10 x 11.5 inches, oil on wood |
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 GL Brierley, Dendalla, 2009, 10 x 11.5 inches, oil on wood |
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 GL Brierley, Retskirt1, 2009, 10 x 11.5 inches, oil on wood |
