SCREEN by Richard Baker

Oil on calico over panel

31 x 24 cm

£1690

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Artist Statement

In Richard Baker’s unpeopled and modestly scaled works the representational absence of the human form is alluded to and made present by the hidden human histories of the seemingly insignificant objects he chooses to depict. Often ignored, these objects bear witness to sensuous activity, be it remembered, lived, forgotten, or mythologised.

The objects are presented dislocated, isolated, and appear as unadorned formal arrangements in a painterly staging of the interrelationship between object and time. Much of the meaning in Baker’s paintings comes from what is left unsaid, what is absent from the image but is seemingly present, what is alluded to.

Richard Baker (b. 1971) lives and works in Leeds, UK. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including at museums in China, The San Francisco Arts Institute, the National Museum of Poland in Gdansk, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the Mall Galleries, London and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

He won the Wells Art Contemporary Patron’s Prize, 2020 and The Hix Award, 2019. He was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize and the Derwent Drawing Prize, 2020, and was runner up in the London Contemporary Art Prize, 2019. He was selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize exhibition at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool in 2018. His work is included in the Priseman-Seabrook collection of 21st Century British painting and is held in many private collections worldwide.