Martin Kinnear RCA 24/25 install shot showing scale of works
Martin Kinnear RCA 24/25 install shot at RCA showing scale of works
Where The Light Briefly Lies Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 200x150cm.
Beneath It All, Desire of Oblivion Runs Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 200x150cm. Studio shown for scale.
Was There A Time. Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 200x150cm.
What The Dust Still Knows. Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 200x150cm.
Salt In The Wake of Shadows. Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 200x150cm.
Shiver In Unlit Rooms. Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting and spray on canvas. 100x50cm 2025
How Bones Argue with Memory. Oil Gloss, pigment, sgrafitto gesso, dry media. 200x250.
How Bones Argue with Memory. Oil Gloss, pigment, sgrafitto gesso, dry media. 200x250.
Forget What Did. Oil, Gloss, sgrafitto underpainting and spray on canvas. 2x2.5 M 2025.Studio shown for scale.
The Body Of An Unknown Republican. Oil, gloss, sgrafitto underpainting. 2025. 244x122cm. Studio shown for scale.
Martin Kinnear RCA 24/25 install shot showing scale of works
Martin Kinnear RCA 24/25 install shot showing scale of works
Martin Kinnear RCA 24/25 install shot showing scale of works
I seek to create surfaces in which figural painting is sublated into and back from abstraction. Using expressive figure drawing as a point of departure, I develop ambiguous works in which background, foreground and subject are in flux, creating paintings which both have and offer agency.