Corri-Lynn Tetz
Gaia Reads Matisse, 2024
oil on linen
127 × 109 ¼ cm (50 × 43 in)
Copyright The Artist
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I wanted to include one painting with Gaia’s face, since the photoshoot with her, in the home she grew up in, was the starting point for a lot of the...
I wanted to include one painting with Gaia’s face, since the photoshoot with her, in the home she grew up in, was the starting point for a lot of the work in the show. She was reading about her great-great grandfather Henri Matisse, and was telling me about how she had never modelled for a painting, and she is the only person in her family who cannot paint.