Jessie Rawcliffe & Dr Suits - Intuition or Ego
Acrylic on Lasercut MDF board layered with Aerosol on Glass, framed in a yellow box frame by Fiksate Framing
610mm W x 605mm H
About the artwork: Enclosed in a hand-painted canary-yellow frame, “Intuition or Ego” serves as Archetypes’ most colourful piece, incorporating diverse shades of crimson red, navy blue, and baby pink. Directing her heavy-lidded glare towards the viewer, Rawcliffe’s model adopts a dreamlike quality through her white silhouetted mane, its pearly strands creating an ostensible halo around her black-and-white visage. Marring the image’s surface with his distinctive shape and line, Dr. Suits further perpetuates this technicolour dreamscape through strokes of gestural red, alongside overlapping blue spheres.
About the Artist: Jessie Rawcliffe is a multidisciplinary artist and designer located in Christchurch, New Zealand. Employing frustrating care for pedantic detail paired with surreal omissions replaced with negative space, her growing body of work is a continual exploration into the roles of the subject and the viewer in figurative painting. Working as a designer and illustrator has allowed her to produce and collaborate on projects that exist in the public realm, however, it is only recently she has had the opportunity for her art practice to do so also.
Nathan Ingram, pseudonymously Dr Suits, is an Ōtautahi-based artist and designer with backgrounds in fashion and urban art. Ingram’s current work is grounded in the qualities of line, colour, surface, and texture, juxtaposing the influence of the urban environment as a space of transient presence and constant physical flux with the calm repose of the studio. Varying in scale, and at times spanning framed surfaces, Ingram’s paintings grapple with the balance of order and chaos, a sense of poise often masking more energetic or physical exertions.
Ingram’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around Aotearoa and overseas, including the permanent collection of the Canterbury Museum. His public works span various cities and he has been included in festivals such as Taupo’s Graffiato (2021), Ōtautahi’s Spectrum (2015), and Flare (2022).
Jessie Rawcliffe & Dr Suits - Intuition or Ego
Acrylic on Lasercut MDF board layered with Aerosol on Glass, framed in a yellow box frame by Fiksate Framing
610mm W x 605mm H
About the artwork: Enclosed in a hand-painted canary-yellow frame, “Intuition or Ego” serves as Archetypes’ most colourful piece, incorporating diverse shades of crimson red, navy blue, and baby pink. Directing her heavy-lidded glare towards the viewer, Rawcliffe’s model adopts a dreamlike quality through her white silhouetted mane, its pearly strands creating an ostensible halo around her black-and-white visage. Marring the image’s surface with his distinctive shape and line, Dr. Suits further perpetuates this technicolour dreamscape through strokes of gestural red, alongside overlapping blue spheres.
About the Artist: Jessie Rawcliffe is a multidisciplinary artist and designer located in Christchurch, New Zealand. Employing frustrating care for pedantic detail paired with surreal omissions replaced with negative space, her growing body of work is a continual exploration into the roles of the subject and the viewer in figurative painting. Working as a designer and illustrator has allowed her to produce and collaborate on projects that exist in the public realm, however, it is only recently she has had the opportunity for her art practice to do so also.
Nathan Ingram, pseudonymously Dr Suits, is an Ōtautahi-based artist and designer with backgrounds in fashion and urban art. Ingram’s current work is grounded in the qualities of line, colour, surface, and texture, juxtaposing the influence of the urban environment as a space of transient presence and constant physical flux with the calm repose of the studio. Varying in scale, and at times spanning framed surfaces, Ingram’s paintings grapple with the balance of order and chaos, a sense of poise often masking more energetic or physical exertions.
Ingram’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around Aotearoa and overseas, including the permanent collection of the Canterbury Museum. His public works span various cities and he has been included in festivals such as Taupo’s Graffiato (2021), Ōtautahi’s Spectrum (2015), and Flare (2022).