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Five2Watch: Portraits


Axisweb has selected five artworks by contemporary artists making portraits: Jad Oakes, Joseph Hillier, Natalie Dowse, Anna Pinkster and Will Reid


Cossack Ladies No. 1, 2016

Jad Oakes

Through sourcing photographic albums and single images from marketplaces, this ongoing series is being created by digitally layering selected photographs from a related time period to create a reciprocal image seeking to preserve a history both of the physical objects and persons featured.

Jad Oakes


Portraits of a Town: Spalding

Joseph Hillier

Portrait of multiculturalism: European influences on Lincolnshire town explored through sculpture

From those who run fruit and vegetable markets to those working in the food packing plants, those tending the land on local farms or tending the check-outs in independent shops, sculptor Joseph Hillier captures the residents of a small, Lincolnshire market town exploring its heritage and inherited culture…

Joseph Hillier


Cut 8, 2015

Natalie Dowse

The ‘Cut’ series is based on film stills, taking a cut to the cheek as a cinematic cliché. The paintings parody the visual shorthand used to portray an injury within the confines of the stare of the lens. The selected image is carefully cropped and recomposed to focus on the protagonist’s face. The circumstances surrounding each injury may vary, a cut from an accident or perhaps from a violent act - but in reality this is only an illusion created with make-up, merely a painted mark in itself. 

Natalie Dowse


Em and Bruno, 2016

Anna Pinkster

Charcoal portrait drawing 77cm x 68cm framed

Anna Pinkster


Saturday's Ghost, 2014

Will Reid

Oil on newspaper

Will Reid


Published 31 March 2017

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