ABOUT
Anthony J Parké is a London-based artist with Persian, English, Indian, Irish heritage. He came into painting via conceptual sculpture, having studied at Kingston Polytechnic before finalising his studies in Philosophy and then Literature. He creates figurative landscapes which hint towards a place of disequilibrium: complex, claustrophobic scenarios populated with spectral figures which drift in and out of constricted environments. His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, often with strained interactions, but the subject matter always remaining the nature of the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the human figure in its unadorned state as it navigates a complex environment. His paintings carry no explicit meaning, but rather are a series of scenarios existing in an environment which references a complex, existential space.