Original painting · Oil on aluminium panel
Lez
Oil on aluminium panel, 86 x 122 cm
Lez Brotherston, the theatre designer, painted in 2018 in one colour of light on aluminium. A head lit from inside, the way a thought lights a face.
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This painting has found its home. Marcus takes on a small number of portrait commissions each year.
About this work
Lez Brotherston is a theatre set and costume designer who has collaborated with Matthew Bourne creating work for numerous productions including Swan Lake, Cinderella, Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray and The Red Shoes.
Oil on aluminium panel, 86 x 122 cm.
Marcus Callum
Marcus Callum is an internationally recognised painter of realist portraits and expressive abstracts. Winner of the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize and the Black Swan Portrait Prize and a three-time Archibald Prize finalist, he trained at the New York Academy of Art and now works from his studio in the UK.
“My paintings take on an energy of their own,” he says. Each one is made to lift the room it hangs in.
