Garry Shead 'Poem' roar studios drawing full focus to gesture

drawing full focus to gesture and presence

Fairey is an activist and collectable artist

and steady beat of an azure sky

looking out at the Californian landscape

A work from the same series

Garry Shead 'Poem' roar studios drawing full focus to gestureThroughout his career, Garry Shead has chased his erotic Muse. Transformed into an icon and celebrated as a goddess, he sees in her the biographical, mystical and spiritual. For Shead, his Muse gives visual identity to inner reality. So vital did he believe inspiration was to a worthwhile life, he once quoted Dostoevsky, writing The world will be saved by beauty. In this work, she emerges as a Poem or Erato, considered Shead s favoured iteration of