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Above and below: The Artist with recent work, 'Self Portrait Decentering Identity 1 (homage to James Joyce)'
Pastel on Stonehenge paper, 100x128cm, 2023
"It's the loose lines and loose colours in Plant's work that are somehow still so accurate."
Morag Caister
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'Work From Home 5' 2021
pastel on Ingres paper
70x50cm
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'Lockdown Hair, Unkempt Self Portrait 1' 2021, Oil on board, 31x50cm
"Plant’s self-portraits in lockdown perceptively capture the confusion, chaos, loss and humility we’ve experienced living with a pandemic. There’s something relatable and beautifully tragic about the artist’s gaze, inviting you into his story and perhaps, a resignation that this is our new normality. How do we connect, read faces, create intimacy in a time of visual obscurity? In Plant’s case, his storytelling is all in those eyes."
Helen Davies, Culture Director, Arts Organisation Bristol & Co-CEO of Inbetweentime.co.uk
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