Gerard Hemsworth

Gerard Hemsworth is a Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, affiliated with the School of Fine Art. His work interrogates the intersection of figuration and formalist abstraction, drawing from minimalist and postmodern traditions to challenge orthodoxies of pictorial representation.

• Research focuses on visual representation in art history
• Teaching emphasizes critical debate in contemporary art
• Active in painting since the 1980s

His practice incorporates ironic juxtapositions of cartoon narratives and modernist tropes, exemplified by works like the 1998 painting Between Heaven and Hell. Hemsworth has contributed to critical discourse through articles in publications like Turps Banana (2008).