“Martin Gregory”, “Anthropoid” and more

FashionArt

Feb 23

I am obsessed with the extremes: the extreme of glamour, erotica, and beauty.

As an artist, where I source my inspiration from is always changing. However, I constantly go back to the classics or “firsts” and see what they've done and how they did it - followed by the creatives who came after them and the ongoing “timeline of concepts”. I find myself ‘cherry-picking’ at elements from the past and producing works that hopefully make a mark in the timeline of ideas while speaking in conversation to its predecessors.

I am obsessed with the extremes: the extreme of glamour, erotica, and beauty. I find a substantial amount of inspiration from the greats of photography like Steven Klein and Nick Knight, and artists of the past like Peter Sato and Pierre Molinier.

I always assumed that my artistic practice would surround itself around conceptual photography. During the pandemic, I was forced to explore different ways to work with the ‘human body’ and its relationship with fashion - teaching myself how to use CGI programs like Blender allowed me to really work with the ‘body’ in a way that felt closer to a mason chiselling at stone and altering it in ways without any physical limit. That ideology really fits the core aesthetic of my work - often described as a fusion between the erotic and tasteful, fashionable and conceptual. Since then, I have been blending CGI and photo media, as well as working with video art in order to produce my works.

MARTIN GREGORY