CHARLES AVERY (b.1973) 'Untitled (Two Guys Poolside), 2016'

Charles Avery
Born Oban, 1973. Lives and works in London and Mull. Since 2005 Avery has dedicated his practice to the description of a fictional island, which he continually elaborates, describing its population, customs and philosophies, nature and architecture, expressed in the form of large-scale drawings, sculptures, installations and texts. Known only as ‘The Island’, Avery’s wave-lapped realm is not only a vividly realised fiction, teeming with sights both strange and strangely familiar, it also operates as a petri dish in which the artist tests ideas from the fields of epistemology, aesthetics, mathematics, economics, anthropology, architecture, and beyond.