Jacky Winter is pleased to present Short Lived by Craig Redman. Short Lived is a study of everyday gestures and expressions, an examination of
ordinary moments distilled down to their simplest forms. Featuring recreations of Redman’s friends in the midst of unassuming acts — eating, contemplating, smoking, waving hello — the work is carefully cropped to pinpoint the most essential components, at times isolating all bodily context until only a limb remains. The characters in the paintings confront the viewer head on and yet, despite this apparent candour, the subjects maintain a sense of disconnection, a sense that something is hiding behind the veil of their body language.

Detached limbs take on sculptural forms, upended to create fresh interpretations of once-familiar gestures. Simplicity is king — modest materials are given space to breathe, championed through the exposure of bare wood panelling, and compositions are stripped back to binary colour combinations, forcing uncomplimentary colours to work together in harmony. Monochromatic pieces in the series create an unconventional textural landscape through the building of multiple layers of paint, allowing one layer to stand out from another and enabling one colour to substitute many.

Craig Redman is one half of art and design duo Craig & Karl. Despite living in different parts of the world, the two manage to collaborate daily, creating bold work executed in a thoughtful and humorous way. Redman’s work often mixes heavy black lines with dynamic and colourful geometric patterns. Redman currently lives and works in New York and has exhibited extensively across the world.