Steven E Robertson, All Muscle, Oil on Canvas, 2025

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Created in 2025, ‘All Muscle’ is an original oil on canvas by Glasgow-based artist Steven E Robertson. The painting reflects … Read more Created in 2025, ‘All Muscle’ is an original oil on canvas by Glasgow-based artist Steven E Robertson. The painting reflects on the role of the body within gay club culture, exploring the tension and interplay between masculine and feminine presentation through stylised figurative imagery.

Robertson combines theatrical figures, devotional symbolism, and nightclub references within a psychologically charged pictorial space that moves between sincerity, irony, and fantasy. The work’s dreamlike atmosphere is heightened through expressive line work, saturated passages of colour, and deliberately exaggerated forms that echo both performance and vulnerability.

Part of the artist’s broader exploration of queer experience, memory, longing, and self-construction, the painting holds humour and melancholy in careful balance.

Unframed. Signed and dated on the reverse. This piece has an attribution mark,
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