Andrew Nicholls 'A Shipwreck'

​Showing from 11-24 September at Peek-a-Boo is Gotham artist Andrew Nicholls’ A Shipwreck (2015), an experimental work combining his drawing and photographic practices.
 
Over the past fifteen years Nicholls has frequently utilised aquatic imagery to represent excessive desire and emotion, a common trope in the romantic tradition. A Shipwreck is a tribute to Gerlicault’s work of the same name (1817-18), Nicholls’ favourite artwork in London’s National Gallery in which the maritime disaster of the title is relocated to the background, leaving the focus on an eroticized male body.   

Andrew Nicholls 'A Shipwreck' (2015)