Gabriel Thorp

London, United Kingdom

About the Artist
My paintings, photographs, drawings and installations are intended to depict a state of anxiety caused by external conditions that results in the fragmentation of a sense of self. My reaction to the environment has resulted in a psychologically charged response which explores the gap between internal and external reality, subject and object, and the need to resolve and unite the two. My work is about extra dimensions created by the power of thought and how a personal sense of reality stems from abstract ideas. If you think something is real, then it is. I use the shadow as a symbol for the ephemeral aspect of human nature - a cast shadow represents a doorway to another psychic dimension. The projection of a distorted human figure symbolises the distorted feelings of the inner person.