Artist: Nicolas Party
Title: Still Life
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 60 x 40 cm
Framed
Date: 2011
Painting is the starting point for all Nicolas Party's works. Applying colour to different surfaces - paper, canvas, walls and objects - allows him to produce a range of work from paintings to site-specific installations. Typically producing still-life and landscape paintings, Party utilises a regular vocabulary of figurative elements - pots, food, mountains and trees - interpreted using the tropes of cubes, cylinders, cones, spheres and pyramids. Using this consistent formal language, he makes a hierarchy of decorative patterns, resulting in frieze-like paintings, which are concurrently representational and fantastical. These works repeatedly interrogate the language of forms central to his practice.
