Super A4

Gary Wright is an Edinburgh based illustrator. On first inspection Gary's work seems playful and fun, but when studied in detail and taken as a body, questions are asked of the viewer.

Why do we find one face beautiful and another ugly? Why is one movie iconic and another irrelevant? What is charisma? Why are we fascinated with ideas of physical perfection. Why are we intrigued by the freakish and perverse? Where do I fit in to these notions of perfection and repulsion. Do we make these judgments our self, are they engraved into our psyche or does popular media make these decisions for us.

Gary's illustrations are striped back to the basic essentials of form. No line is wasted, no color is used frivolously, negative space is vital, the questions are important, they can not be hidden behind the sheen of aesthetics.

Then again, maybe we should just enjoy the humor of the work and laugh at the absurdity of our modern, media polluted world.