APT7 / Raqib Shaw discusses his art practice and 'Paradise Lost'

Raqib Shaw’s extravagant paintings are fantasy worlds of animals and mythical creatures. Pulsing with suggestions of violence and eroticism, these works are rendered with extraordinary flair and detail. A vast range of sources, from English literature and Renaissance painting to Japanese kimono and Chinese cloisonné techniques, informs Shaw’s hybrid imagery. Its visual opulence comes from the artist’s unique process, which involves building up surfaces with stained glass paint and enamel, which is then teased into shape with a porcupine quill and finished with gems, glitter and rhinestones. This is so laborious a process that the paintings take months, even years, for Shaw to complete. These works reveal both the artist’s highly resourceful imagination and his singular, innovative commitment to the process of painting.

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is QAGOMA's flagship international contemporary art event, and the only major exhibition series in the world to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia, the Pacific and Australia.

APT7 continues the series' forward-thinking approach to questions of geography, history and culture and how these questions are explored through the work of contemporary artists. APT7 also marks the twentieth anniversary of the APT, presenting an opportunity to reflect on the unprecedented transformations that have occurred in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

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Raqib Shaw, India/United Kingdom b.1974 / Paradise Lost 2011–12 / Oil, acrylic, enamel, glitter and rhinestones on birch wood / © Raqib Shaw / Courtesy: The artist and White Cube, London

The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia / 8 Dec 2012 – 14 Apr 2013

Source: QAGOMA APT Archive

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