ARTIST PROFILE

Tori Pounds

  • United Kingdom (b. 1995 in Portsmouth )
  • Currently in Mexico City , Mexico.
  • Tori Pounds (b.1995) is an English painter based in Mexico City. Her works encounter the alien but familiarity of a nostalgic item characterised through layering techniques of oil paint on canvas, she is playing with the idea of what seems real.

REPRESENTATION

I always wanted to be a cowboy

I always wanted to be a cowboy

  • 2022
  • Oil, Acrylic on Canvas
  • 100 x 120 cm
  • I always wanted to be a cowboy - thumbnail the upside down  - thumbnail

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    Paintings 2021-22 | 2022

The 90s pop culture and hand gestures are carefully distributed onto canvas in layers, which merge and bleed into one another, the way our memories superimpose themselves onto one another. A satire on death and focus on the loss of the figure, specifically the maternal role.