Rebecca (streaker series) 2014
Emulating Lady Godiva, who had rode naked to protest against injustice hundreds of
years before. 16” x16” approx Oil on wooden panel
Sarah (streaker series) 2014
Leaping for joy, Wimbledon tennis tournament 1982. 16” x16” approx. Oil on wooden panel
Lianne (streaker series) 2014
Lianne said she did it because the game was "depressingly boring" at that point.
16” x16” approx. Oil on wooden panel
Emma (streaker series) 2014
Having a transcendental moment after streaking at the Lords cricket ground
16” x 20” approx Oil on wooden panel
Janine (streaker series) 2014
2003 Mascot Grand National at Huntingdon in September
16” x16” approx Oil on wooden panel
Joy (streaker series) 2014
Joy from Oxford made a stunning nude run at the World Championship Darts Match
in Britain on the 8th January 2007 16” x16” approx Oil on wooden panel
Cynthia (streaker series) 2014
"This is the only way I can keep my sanity, what with being so involved with my children," she remarked.
16” x16” approx. Oil on wooden panel.
Flag streaker (golf) 2014
16 x 16” Oil on wooden panel
Cathy (Streaker series) 2014
Cathy was working as a stripper, and had streaked at the request of her employer
who funded the whole thing. 16” x16”. Oil on wooden panel
Shirley (streaker series) 2014
"I have a list of things I want to do in life and that was one of them"
16” x16” approx
Oil on wooden panel
Breeze streaker 2014
5’” x7”
The Streakers
The Streaker paintings are all based on real streakers from the UK who made famous streaks across Lords cricket ground, Wimbledon in the 70's 80's etc. They are named and each title describes why they did it (‘to be free’, ‘bucket-list’, ‘the game was boring’ etc).
The attempt here was to paint the female nude as seen via the female eye, where the ladies have chosen nudity themselves, and where something other than crude sexuality is being communicated. Something more empowered perhaps? I have enjoyed exploring the less acceptable side of feminine power while at the same time revisiting my roots of portraiture.
emmagray1@mac.com
BIO
Emma Gray has worked in contemporary art in many iterations, most recently as an advisor and curator, building private collections and working in depth mentoring and fostering the careers of a small group of artists. Her Los Angeles project space 5 Car Garage, established in 2013, has been extensively covered in local press and in magazines such as ArtForum, Frieze, Flash Art, ArtReview and Art in America. A former editor of ArtReview who studied at University College London and studied portraiture at Heatherley Art School, London, she has been a secret painter for the past decade. Until now.
