ROBERT’S + KENDALL KOPPE
Glasgow
Hamish Chapman explores Queer identity through traditional oil painting, interrogating ideas of Queer futurity, identity, gender, relationships, transgressions and belonging.
Chapman’s paintings view the human face and body as a self contained landscape. Closely cropped compositions focus on skin, hair, facial hair and/or accessories; stylistically Chapman oscillates between hyper-real and surreal renderings.
References to the game of tennis are woven throughout Chapman’s practice. Tennis balls come together- resembling a face; the court- a backdrop figures exist within. The game becomes an allegory for society, and the rules and strategic behavioural patterns that govern it. Thisrecurring in combination with Chapman’s depictions of eye’s- further questions the semantics of visibility.
Hamish Chapman lives and works in London. They have upcoming exhibitions with Tube Culture Hall, Milan and YK Presents, Seoul. Recent projects include Friends & Family, Anton Kern Gallery (WINDOW), New York (2023); Overhead, Quench, Margate (solo, 2022); Absence Makes the Heart, general information, London (2022); Courtship, Meadow Mill, Dundee (solo, 2022); Meltdown, Ridley Road Project Space, London (2022); Paris Internationale (2021); A Queer Anthology of Wilderness, published by Pilot Press and its accompanying exhibition A Horizon is not Straight, Tenderbooks, London (2020); queer times school prints, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2018).
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Hamish Chapman, St George’s Cross, 2023
Oil on canvas,
140 x 160cm
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Glasgow
Hamish Chapman explores Queer identity through traditional oil painting, interrogating ideas of Queer futurity, identity, gender, relationships, transgressions and belonging.
Chapman’s paintings view the human face and body as a self contained landscape. Closely cropped compositions focus on skin, hair, facial hair and/or accessories; stylistically Chapman oscillates between hyper-real and surreal renderings.
References to the game of tennis are woven throughout Chapman’s practice. Tennis balls come together- resembling a face; the court- a backdrop figures exist within. The game becomes an allegory for society, and the rules and strategic behavioural patterns that govern it. Thisrecurring in combination with Chapman’s depictions of eye’s- further questions the semantics of visibility.
Hamish Chapman lives and works in London. They have upcoming exhibitions with Tube Culture Hall, Milan and YK Presents, Seoul. Recent projects include Friends & Family, Anton Kern Gallery (WINDOW), New York (2023); Overhead, Quench, Margate (solo, 2022); Absence Makes the Heart, general information, London (2022); Courtship, Meadow Mill, Dundee (solo, 2022); Meltdown, Ridley Road Project Space, London (2022); Paris Internationale (2021); A Queer Anthology of Wilderness, published by Pilot Press and its accompanying exhibition A Horizon is not Straight, Tenderbooks, London (2020); queer times school prints, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2018).
Hamish Chapman, St George’s Cross, 2023
Oil on canvas,
140 x 160cm
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