Harley Roberts

Harley Roberts was born in 1995 in Multhorpe, Barnsley, England, and now lives and works in London.
 

 

'Not proud nor ashamed of my background. It is out of focus.' (although it is not significant anymore). For the past five years, his life has alternated between 12-hour night shifts in a glass factory and painting as an artist, a process he also describes as 'painting by numbness'. 'Come down off the cross, we need the wood! We need the wood!' --- voice off page, is his banter of that life or the very world. Furthermore, His work also depicts an obsession with the unseen-scenes between scenes, as he says 'Compelled by the unseen-scenes between scenes, where memory and experience keep dissolving'. His emotional flux extends inwards from the diagonal of the frame, drawing the fusion of emotions from bi-poles of the reality as/into a hidden entrance to the "uncanny" (dark and fearful) scenes of everyday life. This is also the artist's introduction to Fainting Fit (2024).
 

Fainting Fit, 2024
130x180cm 
Oil on canvas

Kiss Under White Shadow, 2024

180x190cm

oil on canvas

'Deformed Yesterday, 2024

140x190cm

oil on canvas, linen

'Approaching reality, diagonally. The unnerving, uncanny, and fascinating nature of masks for example - 

an entrance to a concealed opening, the horror of the infinite horror of what’s beneath.' --Harley Roberts

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