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'Studies for St Jerome at Prayer (after Barroci)’ 1/1 by Isaac Huggins
$1,600.00
Aerosol, ink, pastel transfer and silkscreen prints on Canson Guarro Basik 370gsm, mounted on plywood panel
42 x 30 cm
Available to view in the Perth gallery
About the artwork
This artwork is based on Barroci’s painting of the saint in prayer, but instead of recreating the full scene, it shows only fragments. Parts of Jerome’s body and surroundings appear and disappear beneath layers of colour and shape, so the image feels interrupted and incomplete.
Aerosol, ink, pastel transfer and silkscreen are built up on Canson Guarro Basik paper, creating a surface that looks worn and softly weathered. Areas of loose spray and drawn line sit alongside bold, curved letterforms that move across the composition. These large shapes partly cover the figure, shifting the focus between the historical image and the contemporary marks placed over it.
By combining hand-worked surfaces with print processes, the piece reflects on quiet reflection and the passing of time. Rather than presenting a clear devotional scene, the work suggests that images from the past continue to change as they are revisited, layered and seen through a modern lens.
About the artist
Isaac Huggins is a multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, and arts educator based in Perth. Working across painting, printmaking, textiles, and installation, Huggins’ practice critically investigates the psychological effects of advertising and mass media, and the shifting boundaries between cultural capital and commodification.
His work often merges gestural abstraction with screen-printed imagery and typographic forms, appropriating both historical and popular visual languages to question dominant power structures. His process-based experimentation aims to evoke the fractured nature of contemporary media landscapes, as well as the dissonance between historical artistic legacies and the aesthetics of consumer culture.