Lincoln Davie The adoration of adolescence (2021)

In The adoration of adolescence I have used the dramatic romanticisation of the Italian Renaissance technique of chiaroscuro to explore the intricacies of the emotional landscape of adolescents. I started my body of work as a project to extend my growing abilities in portraiture and felt it apt to convey both the positive and negative emotions that my classmates and I were experiencing ‘in the eye of the storm’ of the HSC. I used soft pastel as my medium as it expresses the ephemeral nature of emotions and carries the vibrancy to contrast with the black Stonehenge paper.

Influencing artists:
Caravaggio
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Jade Abrahams
Gerhard Richter
Édouard Manet
Berthe Morisot