Nicholas Ives | Artist

Nicholas Ives

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20.01.2022 I must have forgotten about this lil guy, always getting away from me Study for PINK FLOYD 2019-20

16.01.2022 Now on @Artsy thru Artbox Collective www.artsy.net/artbox-collective/artist/Nicholas-Charles-Ives

09.01.2022 ‘Clark Kent’ brand new one goes up up up for @sydneycontemporary with @blackartprojects launches tomorrow, check the tags above for more deets . . #clarkkent #contemporarypainting #contemoraryart #disguise #comics #superman #portrait #mask #nicholasives #dccomics

08.01.2022 Demon-youth monster-boy. Transfiguration WIP playing around & summoning the devil on a old background. End times are upon us!! #goya #witchcraft #devil #goat #witch #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #surrealism

06.01.2022 I really don’t like masks, or having to wear them and its gets me down seeing everyone wearing them. (I’m not against wearing them at all, please everyone keep it up.) But they’re awful. I’m particularly over seeing artists painting them, over faces, over portraits or as portraits. (Sorry friends lol nothing personal) To remove eyes from a face or portrait is different for me it speaks more to me of powerful horror, a psychological limbo or unthinking blankness. The ma...sk, this muzzled lack of mouth operates differently. It removes so much expression, so much sensuality. This gateway-orifice that can projects our personal and collective desires, hopes, fears and anxieties. It hides an opening into our inner world; it removes our poetry and our song. It denies sweet taste and a wet, living biology. It shackles out searching, reaching, exploratory tongue-limb with which we can interrogate external and internal worlds and places. I used to not paint mouths on my portraits. The lack of a mouth is incredibly de-humanising and reductive. Observing people now, I see everyone muzzled like animals, as tamed beasts denied instincts and sensation. A fact of this Covid situation is that this virus reasserts our legacy of animal biology, our Earthly connectivity and that we are primate cousins aided only by abstract thought that we frequently fool or entertain ourselves with. With enough reminders of mask wearing out there, now feels like a time to paint and depict mouths to remind ourselves how expressive and sensual we are, or can be, and that this time will return. Will we be different? I can’t wait for us to collectively unveil ourselves publicly again, (with a new nakedness?) and ponder the strange bridge between our animal bodies and our contemporary howls and moans. 'Everything I thought was right is wrong' 2009 oil on linen 40x60cm Private Collection . . . #covid19 #coronavirus #portrait #human #dehumanization #animal #beast #contemporarypainters #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #australianart #goya #nicholasives

02.01.2022 Wounded Tiger, oil on linen 2020. Back to hiding again, I’ll keep working on this piece. Look after one another, we’re all connected