1989年 英国 ブライトン生まれ
ユアン・ロバーツは、バルバドス人とスコットランド人のミックスで、イギリスのセント・レオナルズを拠点に活動しているアーティスト。
ユアンは、ユーモア、希望、苦しみ、喜び、愛、憧れなどの人間の感情を、動物のキャラクターで表現することに重点を置いている。彼の作品制作の根底にあるのは、人間であることの意味だが、彼の作品には人間は登場しない。代わりに、ヨガをするクマ、酔ったカニ、孤独なチンパンジー、泣き叫ぶサメなど、彼の生み出す個性的な動物たちを中心に展開される。 彼の作品は、有色人種がアートの世界や広い社会でどのような道を歩んできたのかを知るてがかりにもなる。おなじみの黒い熊のモチーフは、有色人種がアートの世界でしばしば感じる疎外感を表現しているという。
1989 Born in Brighton, UK
Euan Roberts is an artist of mixed Bajan and Scottish heritage based in St-Leonards-on-Sea, UK.
His artistic practice is focused on analysing the human condition, distilling feelings of humour, hope, suffering, joy, love and longing via his idiosyncratic cast of animal avatars and visual metaphors. Euan’s work is centred on what it means to be human but humans remain absent from his art. Instead, his visual narrative revolved around a changing cast of yogic bears, drunken crabs, lonely chimps and crying sharks. Euan’s work also examines his journey as a person of colour navigating their way through the art world and wider society. Additionally, motifs like his familiar black bear taking up space in urban environments reference the feeling of alienation that people of colour often feel in art world spaces.
His artistic practice is focused on analysing the human condition, distilling feelings of humour, hope, suffering, joy, love and longing via his idiosyncratic cast of animal avatars and visual metaphors. Euan’s work is centred on what it means to be human but humans remain absent from his art. Instead, his visual narrative revolved around a changing cast of yogic bears, drunken crabs, lonely chimps and crying sharks. Euan’s work also examines his journey as a person of colour navigating their way through the art world and wider society. Additionally, motifs like his familiar black bear taking up space in urban environments reference the feeling of alienation that people of colour often feel in art world spaces.