Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas

Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas

Sholto Blissett (b.1996) is an artist from Salisbury who lives and works in London. 

Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board

Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board

Growing up surrounded by the ancient sites of Stonehenge and Avebury stone circle, Sholto has always had an interest in the fictions which societies create in an attempt to understand their place in nature. Hence, Sholto’s largescale, fictional landscapes explore humankind’s relation to nature. At first glance, he evokes the Kantian division of the human and nonhuman; yet his works then turn the viewer towards the Sublime realisation that these two notions are indivisible. Thus, the original, Kantian conception of the Sublime in which the human and natural are purported as separate are challenged by the alternative arguments emerging from the events of the Anthropocene. Sholto encourages the viewer to realise their – our – inescapable intertwinement with the natural world.

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