Christopher Battye
Figures at a Crossroads
Screen print on paper
80 x 104 cm
31 1/2 x 41 in
31 1/2 x 41 in
Edition of 60
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Christopher Battye’s works are full of the lively Soho and Chelsea community of The Colony Room infamy. The works are at once fun and furious, conveying a mayhem that relates...
Christopher Battye’s works are full of the lively Soho and Chelsea community of The Colony Room infamy. The works are at once fun and furious, conveying a mayhem that relates to a real dynamic sense of living in the centre of the capital in its most pulsing moment. His two-headed, multiply-limbed and intriguing amorphous caricatures are witty and ironic, powerful and playful whilst often frightening. We see a riot of colour and charge in images of spinning heads, psychosexual drama and theatrical violence; the mood is hectic and alive, grounded in archetype, symbolism and rampant use of colour. The artist casually deals in psychoanalytic concepts of splitting, schizoid fantasy, false selves, and narrative therapy with the symbolic potency and awareness of the Marseilles tarot deck and Jungian allegory.