Jeremy Gluck

 The work chosen is a portrait of me taken by my son Sam. Seated in a ruined building in local woods, where an old chair and table have been sited by persons unknown, for me it captures a moment of spontaneous tranquil poetics that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation. I feel tired of my dreams. Lockdown was quite a special event, a bubble, and now it has burst and all that energy that was somehow safe is loose and less predictable. A sort of freefall, but I am not too disillusioned, it is necessary. Nothing is the way it is. 

Jeremy Gluck is a neurodiverse expatriate Canadian, UK-based intermedia artist, graduated M.Arts. Mainly working with contemporary strategies, by rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Gluck creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art collides with ambiguity and concealment. His background is multidisciplinary, spanning, writing, music, and art. Influenced by Metzger, the Fluxus artists, Bacon, William Burroughs, and the Beats, his aspiration is to communicate visually so that the viewer is part of a unitive, experiential energy, merging space, place and meaning. Jeremy Gluck has exhibited in London, Sydney, and Swansea, and has been curated this year for the Bath Arts Fringe, and SHIFT (Glasgow) festivals. Jeremy Gluck's work is aloof and systematic, maintaining a tension between the poetic and the banal, and a cool and neutral imagery is used, obscuring a subtext speaking to process as practice. In his work he tries to enfold concepts and realities and involve the viewer in a way that is physical and authentic to function following form in a work