Nina Simone By Tim Fowler

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The work of contemporary British artist Tim Fowler is characterised by its bold & intense use of colour. Known for his portraits of silver screen sirens, Fowler’s work at once captures his subject’s likeness & eschews figurative realism, asserting a refusal to collapse life & art in its use of thick pigment, hard lines, & clashing colour. Working with acrylic, spray paint, marker pens, oils, & graffiti inks, Fowler reimagines the past with a distinctly urban, twenty-first century aesthetic. ’ Nina Simone’ depicts the eponymous singer & activist, her head & shoulders rendered in super-real shades of sky blue & raspberry pink, each paint daub left unblended & boldly visible against a clashing background of rose pink & sunshine yellow. Yet for all of its self-consciously surreal artistry, the piece not only captures Simone, but also recalls the high contrast, black & white that typifies 1960s photography.