In Two Self Portrait

This double self-portrait was my entry to the 2022 Archibald Prize. This work is heavily inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon.
This is one of my more loose, intuitive and raw works where I wanted the brushwork/individual brushstrokes visible, letting the paint speak as much as the colour and forms.
For something interesting I decided to create a double portrait like a diptych (although this is the one canvas). I believe the differently angled portraits creates a degree of movement and energy in the piece.
Ready to hang with strong wire/d-rings on the back.
The canvas has been custom-made and the wooden stretcher is thick/deep (35mm deep) and is strong, complimented by a cross-brace on the back.

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Jeremy Elkington has been painting since 1995 and in 2002 achieved his Masters of Visual Arts (By Research) at Monash University. Since 1997 Jeremy has been exhibiting his work in group and solo exhibitions and regularly submitting his work in an array of art prizes across Australia. In 2009 he won 'Best Australian Landscape' at the Herald Sun Rotary Club of Camberwell Art Show and in both 2018 and 2022 was a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize. At the core of much of Jeremy's artwork (especially in larger paintings) are desert landscapes, the ancient world (particularly Ancient Rome), ornament and abstraction. From 1997 to 2011 Arabic ornament and architectural elements (as well as the desert landscape) had been explored. Desert landscapes remain but Arabic art had been superseded by the armour, weaponry, ornament, architectural elements and sculpture of Ancient Rome. Within such works Jeremy aims to evoke a sense of the hidden narrative, the epic, the surreal, the ornamental, the archaic as well as beauty. Since 2013 Jeremy has also explored abstraction, abstract-expressionism, silhouettes, the Gothic, portraiture (particularly influenced by the work of Francis Bacon) space and depictions of film scenes. Jeremy has also been producing drawings whose range of subject matter reflects that within his paintings but, at times, has explored pattern and ornament to an intense degree.
Jeremy has sold artwork across Australia, New Zealand and USA.