Gwilym Pearce Jones

Growing up without religious upbringing, I still felt its presence. I juxtapose its beauty with a tragic sense of exclusion, both personally as a gay man and also globally. My work is a collage made from the past and present, recontextualising its narratives by mixing video games like The Sims with figures taken from historical artworks. They also stumbled upon the timeless nature of division despite the drastic changes in our society over the centuries, though I found a renaissance of my own for my love of story-telling through this medium. The questions that hold you inside the worlds I’ve painted are yours to ask freely. Let them exist as mythologies, let them be bastardised.