PHILIP EGLIN: NEW WORK

摘要

Philip Eglin's female figures are not sexy or provocative, neither are they statuesque or fiery. They are full of life, yet with a gentle and pensive sense of being. They position themselves mostly sitting, but also reclining or on all fours in a state of contemplative relaxation. Their soft fleshiness oozes a little from suggestions of underwear lines. They are all distinguished by Mrs Pepperpot hairstyles, roughly caught and collected with flyaway bumps or rasta-like nodules. Dishevelled, characterful, just the way things are. The fleshy surfaces are highly textured and layered with free-flowing modelling as well as details originating from press moulded sections of household objects. Shapely lower legs wound tight with clay loosen after the knee into more generous, puckered and dimpled flesh. Breasts hang pendulously, backs arch in relaxation, hands rest on knees or gently brush a lower jaw, but without self-consciousness. There is an alert turn of a head, a dreamy gaze, a quirky elevation of a foot. All figures are grounded with rectangular bases, pedestals supported with elegantly modelled low legs.