ARIES 2023 - Andrew Sunderland

Our Astrologer associated Aries with the question of the self. Andrew Sunderland answers with a self-portrait. Produced as a drawing and then digitised, the artist represents himself eating a sandwich, in reference to the famous photograph of politician Ed Miliband which will contribute to his discredit in his race for Downing Street. This portrait of himself as vulnerable seems to appear in a teeming red and green mass that he himself describes as slugs. Our Astrologer's injunction to Aries to embody their fluid self couldn’t be taken more seriously. The singularity of Andrew's work lies in a powerful imagination nourished by SF, political iconography and philosophical theory, from which he draws associations that dreams are made of, as improbable as they are fruitful. Seeming to open the unconscious with a scalpel and reveal its entrails, Andrew Sunderland's proposition - as the sign of Aries in 2023 - is under the influence of Neptune, bringing out taboos and and all that is buried.