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Artist Statement for Tim Le Breuilly
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Created from a genuine interest in socially marginalised art, Le Breuilly's style often engages with that of the mentally ill, Outsider art and artistic production from fringe cultures - the paintings and drawings of Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux and Luis Wane figuring heavily in his work. He also combines the 'low art' of comic books and commercial illustration with the crisp simplicity and confidence of technique evident in geographical illustration and engraving.
Drawing from a Surrealist curiosity in automatic drawing, Le Breuilly's style possesses an almost compulsive manner in which strokes are repeated and cause forms to vibrate and shiver next to each other - where biomorphic forms jarr and rupture against harsh jutting architectural outlines, each work mapping out fantastical and unfamiliar landforms. This compulsive ordering and geometricisation recalls Austin Osman Spare's mystical landscapes and automatic drawings, while referencing Mantegna's classical yet surreal landforms in paintings such as "Agony In The Garden".
Yet within these landscapes lie cellular organisms, entoptic imagery and microscopic forms - laws of recession and scale cease to apply and the very act of looking becomes a way in which to distort and alter perspectives. In addition to this, his inclusion of sigils (geometricised icons or astrological symbols), recreates drawing as a performance or ritual. Hence, drawing itself becomes a kind of talisman for Le Breuilly.
This collectivity and hybridised style brings together strands of the Blakean fantastic with pulp and pop art, the vibrant South American and Spanish colouration with fantastical biomorphic forms, and it is these influences that become reference points through which the unfamiliar can begin to come into focus as fragments of maps, buildings and microscopic forms.
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