Rupert Knox
Ru combines the rigorous formal structure of his training with his own original ideas, displaying his unique and personal style.
Dopodomani
Oil on canvas, 2023
ZZZ
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 2019
Triggers
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 2017
Ru's works are expeditions into our common and universal subconscious, moments and experiences which we share, but cannot be shared. Our dreams are the only things that belong solely to ourselves. These otherwise innocuous abstracts give way to a complex and fraught inner emotional life.
Through experimenting hypnagogic and hypnopompic states, Ru captures the fraught and fickle nature of the human dream in a way that is positively Freudian, shapes melt into one another, the mind drifts in and out of consciousness, what was once obscured, distant and cloudy suddenly becomes vivid and crystal clear. In our dreams we smell smells we have never smelt before, hear songs we’ve never heard before. Everything makes sense if only for an instant: More real than reality itself.