Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican born artist, he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London in 2012 and is currently a lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Geoff’s new work strips back the Science Fiction narratives that have been prominent in his work in order to expose it to a more immediate, direct and metaphysical comprehension of how we position ourselves within a landscape. The new work seems to be hovering in a state of ‘becoming’; we find figures interacting with the landscape, their substance and materiality seem to be dissolving into the painterly swirls of matter. There’s a more human intimacy in the work, the figures feel at times lost but also intrigued by their strange and abstract surroundings. Are they at one with their place in the universe, celebrating their simple and pure existence or has something out of hand happened in which they are trying to survive a ‘wild’ post apocalyptic environment? Fire and wood are crucial motifs, elemental and timeless the paintings seem to want to strip away contemporary structures and technology to expose a more direct human experience of the landscape.
