Aisha Christison
In Aisha Christinson’s paintings notable works from art history are ‘re-performed’ as if in an act of cultural karaoke. The paintings hint at notions of authenticity and authorship in an image inundated world. From the likes of Diego Velazquez, Giorgione, Nicolas Poussin, Henri Pierre Picou and the pastoral landscapes of Claude Lorrain. Christinson focuses on certain details within iconic works that compel her, like the tiger playfully gnawing a foot in Odalisque Study (2017), which is taken from Picou’s painting Odalisque (1858). Christinson embellishs, overlays and repeats the motifs which go on to form rhythmic, and at times disorientating compositions. The original referenced works are mediated through paint and become naïve and exaggerated translations, painted in deliberately saturated harmonious or even discordant colour schemes, they are transformed and distorted like the voice by a karaoke microphone.

Simple water scene
oil on linen
100 x 80 cm
£2,200

Self portrait with stars sketch
oil on linen
65 x 46 cm
£1,400

Singing with candle sketch
oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
£1000

Women with hand to face
oil on linen
60 x 50 cm
£1,300

Deconstructed battle scene/A villa at the edge of the water
oil on linen
81 x 60 cm
£1,700

The vine
oil on linen
50 x 40 cm
£1,300

Odalisque 2
oil on linen
50 x 40 cm
£1,200

Paws, eyes and grasses with mars brown hues
oil on linen
100 x 80 cm
£2,400

Mixed motifs with cadmium, brun de mars and vert de vessie
oil on linen
50 x 40 cm
£1,100

Fountain head and foliage
oil on linen
100 x 80 cm
£2200

Woman glances away with reflection
oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
£1,000

Statue Sketch
oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
£1,000