The Radar: Shaun Pierson, Joseph Jones and Fern O’Carolan
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In our monthly series, The Radar, we ask quick-fire questions to artists we’ve got our eye on. In May, we’re spotlighting Shaun Pierson, Joseph Jones and Fern O’Carolan
Shaun Pierson, House on Fire, 2018. Courtesy the artist
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Shaun Pierson
Shaun Pierson, Untitled (Cruising), 2022. Courtesy the artist
Brooklyn-based photographer and videographer Shaun Pierson interrogates the intersection of sexuality, desire and shame. He casts himself in dual roles of voyeur and subject, staging tense scenes that explore the different ways individuals project and perform private desires that are often buried beneath the surface of everyday life.
Age: 27
Location: New York, NY
Last dream you had: In the last dream I remember, I had to wake my mother up and ask her to take me to school because I missed the bus. Being late for something is a recurring dream for me
Favourite exhibition: The Diane Arbus Retrospective at David Zwirner in New York. Intensely moving to see all those pictures in one space
Favourite object you own: My camera
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @artreviewpower100
Favourite movie: All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Favourite artwork: Study for a Portrait by Francis Bacon, 1953
Loves: Stormy days, being alone, watching films, mobility
Hates: Eggs, Aperol spritz
End-of-year goals: To make enough money to pay my rent and to keep making work that moves and excites me
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Joseph Jones
Joseph Jones, 'Ariel', 2024. Photo: Ollie Harrop. Courtesy the artist
Joseph Jones, 'Viola', 2023. Photo: Ollie Harrop. Courtesy the artist
“I like the paintings to feel like you are looking through a window.” Influenced by artists including Gluck, Mary Fedden, Eleonore Koch, Carel Weight, and Jochen Lempert, Joseph Jones’ meticulously detailed paintings invite viewers to slow down and partake in a reading of his images that prompt internal reflection.
Age: 38
Location: Sussex, UK
Last dream you had: Flying high
Favourite exhibition: Marc Camille Chaimowicz at the Serpentine
Favourite object you own: An artwork by my five-year-old son Jude
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @c.a.daily
Favourite movie: Akenfield by Peter Hall (1974), adapted from the book by Ronald Blyth (1969)
Favourite artwork: The Restless Image by Rose Finn Kelcey, 1975
Loves: Cats, flowers and sunglasses
Hates: Cold tea, mannequins and rain
End-of-year goals: Grow orchids. Finish the paintings.
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Fern O’Carolan
Fern O’Carolan, ‘chloé (with an i)’ installation view, Slugtown, Newcastle, 2023. Photo: Matt Atoniak. Courtesy the artist
Fern O’Carolan’s work explores femininity’s impasse with Catholicism and its manifestation in Irish culture. She collects imagery and ephemera from magazines and old blogs to assemble and recreate personal and distorted memories. O’Carolan investigates the nuances of the feminine aesthetic and explores its potential to both empower and exclude.
Age: 32
Location: London, UK
Last dream you had: That my cat was human-sized
Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: Hard to choose but my recent favourites are ‘Survival Spell’ by Anne Hardy at Maureen Paley and ‘Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters’ at Waddington Custot
Favourite object you own: My sewing machine
Favourite art-world Instagram account: I live my life off da grid
Favourite movie: The Doom Generation or Jawbreaker
Favourite artwork: It changes monthly but at the moment it’s Fruit of Thy Loins by Mike Kelley, 1990
Loves: Love, everything cute, logic, money, being emo
Hates: Being bored, small talk, people with no manners, bullies, Twilight
End-of-year goals: To have a head**** of a solo show
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