MARC STANDING
With a taste for the murky and complicated , Hong Kong-based Australian artist Marc Standing expresses the qualities of the human condition through surreal, distorted faces and an inventive colour palette. Originally born in Harere, Zimbabwe, Standing works with Lightbombs Contemporary in Hong Kong. Standing’s works find root in a plethora of aspects that range from the political to the Freudian. Standing employs whimsy and fantasy to his most recent body of work, through blended pastel colours and dotted brushstrokes. Escapism totes a sinister note and this is not lost on Standing as the ever present masked figure emerges in this dreamland.
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Written by Aurora van Kerckhove Images Courtesy of Marc Standing