You
2018
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 180.0 × 150.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 2018.1313
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018
© Juan Ford - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In his paintings, Melbourne-based artist Juan Ford engages with realism and explores our relationship with the natural world. Employing Ford’s signature realist technique, You depicts the figure of a woman entirely camouflaged in eucalyptus leaves and branches. The softly coloured gradient background suggests a sandstorm, giving the impression of the figure suddenly appearing in front of the viewer. With thousands of individual gum leaves in shades of grey-green, Ford painted the work from a life-sized sculptural model he created from found native Australian plants.
- Subjects (general)
- Botanical Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- anthropomorphic branches (plant components) Eucalyptus (genus) flora (plants) leaves (plant components) women (female humans)