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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

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"EXACTITUDE IS THE CONFUSION OF FAMILIAR THINGS. ART IS CREATING THINGS ONE IS UNFAMILIAR WITH."

Constantin Brancusi

'The New Religion' 2021

charcoal and pastel on paper

84x60cm

'Self Portrait Decentering Identity 2' 2023

pastel and charcoal on paper

84 x 60 cm

"THE MOST DIFFICULT THING TO DO

IS WHAT'S MOST FAMILIAR."

Alberto Giacometti

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'Social Networking'  2021

charcoal and pastel on paper

84x60cm

'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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