Max Rumbol sentimentalizes British culture and the mundane in his works that go beyond sculpture and painting as they depict nocturnal scenes of houses, trees, or bodies holding artworks. Initially employing digital drawings of his pieces, Rumbol turns these compositions into wood-carved works. The landscapes and pastoral scenes he creates are encroached on by the gloominess of the night; the moon and stars create the only light in the works. Laboring over the surface to disclose or disguise his mark on the work, Rumbol creates a dialogue about the artist’s function. In the dark-paletted three-dimensional painting Second Bite of the Apple (2020), the artist depicts apples tucked into a tree trunk; the fruit, with its historically symbolic meaning, becomes a fetish object and in a meta fashion, so too does the process of creating art. Rumbol holds a BFA from the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art.

Max Rumbol

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Artist

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