Artist Gavin Gleeson talks about his really good titles, wearing ideas like loose garments while painting, aiming to be irresponsible in the studio, and a lot more.

Gavin Gleeson (b.1995) is an American artist born in Iowa to Irish parents and raised in Kentucky. Now based in London, he holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2024) and a Post-Baccalaureate diploma in Studio Art from the Burren College of Art (2023).

Drawing upon the dual influences of his American upbringing and Irish heritage, Gleeson’s practice engages with personal narratives, memory, and the subtle tensions between intimacy and distance.

Gavin’s work: gavingleeson.com

Gavin’s Instagram: @gavingleesonart

Reference links:

• Tal R Visiting Artists Program Lecture at SAIC (2016)

• Markus Lüpertz, Dithyrambe – schwebend (Dithyramb – hovering) (1964)

• Annabel Grey, mosaic at Finsbury Park (1983)

• Masayoshi Fujita, Cumulonimbus Dream (2021)

• Michelangelo, The Last Judgement (1536-1541)