Curio | Andy Gomez

£1,800.00

Andy Gomez
Curio, 2025
Pencil and graphite drawing on paper (300gsm)
100 × 100 cm

'Curio' by Andy Gomez invites the viewer into a dense, speculative landscape of objects, fragments, and symbolic forms. Built through meticulous mark-making and subtle erasures, the work unfolds as a spectral diorama, part archaeological display, part imagined relic, where organic elements and invented architectures appear to merge.

Rendered in graphite and pencil on paper, 'Curio' centres on an ornate, unstable structure that feels both ceremonial and architectural, as though unearthed from an unknown culture or assembled from the remains of many. Gomez’s careful, labour-intensive process lends the work an atmosphere of preservation and discovery, encouraging the viewer to read the image slowly, moving between suggestions of folklore, archaeology, and fantasy.

Rather than offering a fixed narrative, 'Curio' operates as a field of associations. Familiar forms dissolve into invented ones, and historical echoes sit alongside imagined artefacts, creating a nonlinear space where observation, speculation, and memory intersect.

Andy Gomez
Curio, 2025
Pencil and graphite drawing on paper (300gsm)
100 × 100 cm

'Curio' by Andy Gomez invites the viewer into a dense, speculative landscape of objects, fragments, and symbolic forms. Built through meticulous mark-making and subtle erasures, the work unfolds as a spectral diorama, part archaeological display, part imagined relic, where organic elements and invented architectures appear to merge.

Rendered in graphite and pencil on paper, 'Curio' centres on an ornate, unstable structure that feels both ceremonial and architectural, as though unearthed from an unknown culture or assembled from the remains of many. Gomez’s careful, labour-intensive process lends the work an atmosphere of preservation and discovery, encouraging the viewer to read the image slowly, moving between suggestions of folklore, archaeology, and fantasy.

Rather than offering a fixed narrative, 'Curio' operates as a field of associations. Familiar forms dissolve into invented ones, and historical echoes sit alongside imagined artefacts, creating a nonlinear space where observation, speculation, and memory intersect.

Andy Gomez is a British artist born in Worcester, England, whose work is primarily centred on detailed graphite and pencil drawings that examine objects, structures, and symbolic forms. Working through meticulous mark-making and carefully constructed compositions, he creates images that blend natural fragments, artefacts, and invented architectures into dense, contemplative scenes.

His drawings often suggest relics, dioramas, or archaeological displays, exploring themes of preservation, transformation, and the shifting relationship between organic life and human-made systems.