'music to watch boys to' by Tabitha Rose

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By Signature Art Prize 2025
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

86 × 147 × 3 cm

Materials:

Oil paint, oil pastel, on canvas

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Large
2024
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This painting is explores tensions between surveillance and interiority. The figure is taken from a 2000’s paparazzi photograph of Lana del Ray, with the title also being one of her songs. An awareness of surveilled femininity is added to by lens of celebrity, which amplifies voyeurism into a threat. There is a sense of holiday, sun and childhood with the vibrant colours, orangina bottle, barbie pink headphones. But nostalgia is in tension; her thick stripey bikini and her translucent ephemeral body, the yellow clouds and rain at the beach, the playful scene and her body language, headphones blocking out sound and yet she is gazing out of the canvas, aware of an unseen presence. This uneasiness speaks to ideas around girlhood in friction with womanhood. The background of the painting is used as a landing site for emotional unconsciousness, where the boundaries of reality are released and everything gets soft around the edges. Form and formlessness are in dialogue with imagination, and playful naivety is expressed but in contention with the observation of the outer world.

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