Jeremy Geddes is a Melbourne-based artist known for his surreal and slightly dystopian oil paintings of cosmonauts, people, and birds floating in space. While he cites RenĂ© Magritte and Antonio Garcia Lopez as two of his artistic influences, Geddes doesn’t align his work with any particular genre or movement; rather, it is internally focused and derived, shedding light on deep mental experiences; “I really want to trigger emotional or meditative states in the viewers,” he told Iron and Air. There is a stillness to his work, a quietness, a pain that is both intensified and relieved through its representation; as the embryonic subjects curl up inside the void, there is a sense of being held and a sense of surrender. Visit Geddes’ website and Instagram for more of his thought-provoking work.
Images © Jeremy Geddes Via Unit London