Clementine McGaw is a young British artist who graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central St Martins. She won the award for Best Emerging Fine Artist 2010 awarded by Saatchi & Saatchi. Her paintings concentrate on human suffering particularly that caused by conflict. Some of the images are very harrowing and evoke raw emotion.
The artist uses oil and gloss paint in such a way that it drips down the canvas obscuring some of the images as though to suggest they shouldn't be seen. However these images are large and I think speak load and clear about human suffering caused by the politics of war and the power of the Sovereign State.
www.clementinemcgaw.comCheck out her website and let me know what you think.
Interesting choice Ann. Artists have always dealt with human suffering - see: The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian by Antonio Pollaiuolo 1475, Manet’s Execution of Maximilian (1867), Otto Dix’s Der Krieg [War] cycle 1924, Peter Howson's Plum Grove 1994, Chapman brothers' Hell - to name but a few. The works by McGaw are obviously carrying this tradition on - are they beautiful and are they disturbing and can both things exist side by side - you just have to look at Schiele to see that it can. Would you have them on your wall? I would rather have a work that evokes emotion than one which ties in nicely with the curtains!!!!!!
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