Graham Fletcher’s newest body of works treat the artist studio not simply as a site of production, but as a curated, self-reflexive environment. They have been inspired by Matisse’s The Pink Studio (1911), which comes from a lineage of 20th century artists exploring the studio as subject and as a charged site of introspection. Studio X presents ten paintings that operate within a layered visual and conceptual space, where tribal artefacts, modernist references, and mid-century furnishings converge. The “X” signals not only the Roman numeral for ten, but also to the idea of the intersection of cultures, histories, and artistic vocabularies. It further suggests a variable—a shifting value or identity yet to be fully defined.

Image Credits: Graham Fletcher, Studio X (Red I) (cropped detail), 2025, oil on linen, 1520 x 1220mm. Courtesy of Gow Langsford and the artist.