Stuart Pearson Wright

Same Old Drill. Oil and pigmented gesso on oak. 280mm x 150mm. 2024.

It’s going to be ok. Don’t panic. Yes, I confess I am a male, and yes I did paint a woman here without any clothes and I recognise that these elements combined constitute a Male Gaze. I understand concerns. I have a daughter and I have sisters. An assumption might be that this painting is an objectification of a woman’s body. However, I would like to make the case that this painting is in fact highly subjective. It is born of a collaboration between two people: one with a body and one with a lens, both of them with a sense of humour and each equally and actively invested in the process. Making this painting was an act of devotion.