Portfolio > Empty Chairs

Debutants (Empty Chair series)
Oil on canvas
230 x 160 cm
2012
Safety Chair
Acrylic on paper
29 x 21 cm
2014
Ozymandias
OIl and acrylic on canvas
230 x 170 cm
2012
Belonging
Acrylic on paper
21 x 29 cm
2014
Manufactory of Echoes 2
Acrylic on paper
21 x 29 cm
2014
Longing for the Home that Never Existed
Acrylic, oil, pencil, varnish on canvas
240 x 170 cm
2014
Heroes
Acrylic on paper
21 x 29 cm
2013
Acrylic on paper
21 x 29 cm
2010

As the chair was once a domestic luxury, the metaphorical ‘empty chair’ is seldom found in folklore, making empty chair imagery peculiar to the depiction of the human condition in a post-industrial society. The chairs represent people held back by various belief systems that sustain a sense of alienation in society.