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Above and below: The Artist with recent work, 'Self Portrait Decentering Identity 1 (homage to James Joyce)'
Pastel on Stonehenge paper, 100x128cm, 2023
"It's the loose lines and loose colours in Plant's work that are somehow still so accurate."
Morag Caister
'Work From Home 5' 2021
pastel on Ingres paper
70x50cm
'Lockdown Hair, Unkempt Self Portrait 1' 2021, Oil on board, 31x50cm
"Plant’s self-portraits in lockdown perceptively capture the confusion, chaos, loss and humility we’ve experienced living with a pandemic. There’s something relatable and beautifully tragic about the artist’s gaze, inviting you into his story and perhaps, a resignation that this is our new normality. How do we connect, read faces, create intimacy in a time of visual obscurity? In Plant’s case, his storytelling is all in those eyes."
Helen Davies, Culture Director, Arts Organisation Bristol & Co-CEO of Inbetweentime.co.uk
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