About the Artwork
Theo Terry’s practice is informed by historical still-life painting, commercial photography, collage, and the aesthetics of digital processes. His work recontextualises materials and objects to navigate both pictorial concerns and those of wider society: wealth, labour, and consumption. Through the layering of various representational methods and bold framing techniques, apparent oppositions – between image and object, natural and artificial matter, depth and flatness, authenticity and mass production – play out within his composition. Combining a handmade aesthetic with a hyperreality of colour, scale, and tactility, Terry’s work suggests a latent potential in the objects which constitute our world.
