"The reason I call this place Naked Island is because it exists in isolation (separate and hidden like the unconscious) and the island itself is naked, revealing some kind of hidden truth. The newest addition to this series is emergency blankets. It took a long time to find the next 'thing' that fit in this series as I need things to come up naturally and this can take many years."
"Fortunately, I found after many photoshopped collages that these blankets had great potential. They are surreal yet believable, wrapping and concealing the figures in ways that feel both unsettling and compelling. They carry layered associations, from their name (emergency, survival, safety) to the iconic images back in 2015 especially of refugees wearing them. And lastly, they are simply visually striking and their iridescent light and geometry nicely juxtapose against my set up dark scenes."
William Reinsch, born in Essex, England, has developed a series of paintings since 2019 that feature recurring ideas coexisting in a shared imaginative world. The place is called Naked Island, an isolated, hidden environment likened to the unconscious where the island's nudity reveals hidden truths. The series evolves naturally as new elements emerge; the newest motif is emergency blankets, discovered after years of collage experiments. The blankets are surreal yet believable, wrapping and concealing figures in unsettling and compelling ways while carrying associations of emergency, survival, and refugee imagery. The blankets' iridescent light and geometry contrast with the dark set-ups. Reinsch is preparing solo exhibitions in London, New York, and Mexico.
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