Ryans work are photomontages, carved with the sumptuous imagery and vivid colour that bombards us everyday in glossy magazines. There is a careful and considered use and abuse of the stolen images. A high jacking of the usually banal, oversexed objectification of the female form. Juxtapose flawless fragments with strenuous misalliance.

Beauty’s all-important symmetrical balance is grotesquely spiked creating a menagerie of distorted, garbled monstrous beasts. Where women are mere clotheshorses, pimped by big business to offload product promising the superficial and unattainable dream of perfection, my work chews up corporate advertising and spits it back to the tune of a different politics.

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

RYAN OLIVER

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