Richard Malone's Art for Erotic Review is Indecently Luscious

"Turn the pages slowly. There are questions here. As guest art curator of the Erotic Review's issue 4, I've chosen to depart from the tradition of previous editions by collaborating with a single artist. I've invited them to fully inhabit the space, to intervene in your physical experience of the magazine - transforming the 'thingness' of this issue, this object, into an erotic encounter in itself."

"Perusing and scanning artworks, deliberating over an artist to engage with, I was caught and held by Temperance - the surprisingly erotic wall painting Malone made with their father. Created through a meticulous and repetitive process, Temperance resists virtual encounter and demands to be experienced in the flesh. Viewed in shifting patterns of light, it offers a subtle and poetic reward for the senses, an assertion of the joys and frissons to be found in close looking."

"In their text, Malone introduces us to the realities of class and labour that underpin their practice. Born in Ireland, they learnt stitching and embroidery from their grandmother before beginning their working life as a painter and decorator with their father. That was followed by a fashion degree at Central St Martins and the evolution of a practice that cuts across art and fashion."

A curator invited a single artist to radically alter the physical magazine, making the object itself an erotic, tactile encounter. Richard Malone's practice emphasizes cloth, folds, hands, drapes, smudges and stitches as a nonverbal language of play, labour, love and delight. The wall painting Temperance, made with Malone's father, uses repetitive, meticulous processes to resist virtual viewing and reward close, in-person looking through shifting light and subtle colour shifts. Malone's background spans stitching taught by family, work as a painter and decorator, and formal fashion training, producing work that intersects sensuality with class and labour.

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