Rupert Record
Rupert currently lives and works in London
"Rupert Record's startling portrait Ripe Breath at the Toni Heath Gallery."
Derwent May, The Times, January 11 2006.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1996, Rupert Record has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. He has work in many private and corporate collections in Europe and the US. "Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits" is his eleventh solo show and his third with the Toni Heath Gallery.
"Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits",
Record’s starting points for his series of paintings include Aram Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" and the 1960 Stanley Kubrick epic of the same name.
Bending the greed, hate and violence, he uses auras of luminous colour - reminiscent of stained glass - to reflect the deeper emotion and uniqueness within each figure. The layers within are able to stir the soul: transfiguring the individual's internal pain to investigate "the triumph of the spirit over oppression".
The work was based on the memory of watching a vhs video of Spartacus on a flickering TV at school when the artist was twelve.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1996, Rupert Record has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. He has work in many private and corporate collections in Europe and the US. "Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits" is his eleventh solo show.