John Robinson - Nebuchadnezzar

£17,250.00

150 x 180 x 3.8 cm

Oil on Canvas

2025

My paintings begin in performance. I construct costumes from domestic objects and found images carrying social or devotional meaning, photograph myself inside these provisional figures, then rebuild the encounter in oil. In my queerness, I recognise myself obliquely in bodies not made for me. The desire to become what I cannot be runs through the practice. I grew up Christadelphian in Worcester. Renouncing faith left my need for belief intact. In the vernacular, I search for a door to the divine. The paintings preserve invented ceremonies and failures of transformation, where borrowed things become bodies before receding again into paint.

Please note that delivery is not included in the price. Delivery costs will be the responsibility of the buyer. The delivery method and payment will be arranged with Parker Harris after purchase, and Parker Harris will contact all buyers once their purchase is complete. Buyers will not receive the work until after the exhibition at Wells Cathedral closes on Saturday 7 November 2026. Works can be collected from Wells Cathedral on Sunday 8 or Monday 9 November 2026, 9.30am–4.30pm.

150 x 180 x 3.8 cm

Oil on Canvas

2025

My paintings begin in performance. I construct costumes from domestic objects and found images carrying social or devotional meaning, photograph myself inside these provisional figures, then rebuild the encounter in oil. In my queerness, I recognise myself obliquely in bodies not made for me. The desire to become what I cannot be runs through the practice. I grew up Christadelphian in Worcester. Renouncing faith left my need for belief intact. In the vernacular, I search for a door to the divine. The paintings preserve invented ceremonies and failures of transformation, where borrowed things become bodies before receding again into paint.

Please note that delivery is not included in the price. Delivery costs will be the responsibility of the buyer. The delivery method and payment will be arranged with Parker Harris after purchase, and Parker Harris will contact all buyers once their purchase is complete. Buyers will not receive the work until after the exhibition at Wells Cathedral closes on Saturday 7 November 2026. Works can be collected from Wells Cathedral on Sunday 8 or Monday 9 November 2026, 9.30am–4.30pm.