However weak, flawed, evil or unfashionable, the artist – and we must remember that every person (including us) is the product of our era and culture - tells us a truth about ourselves that we may not wish to acknowledge.
Alexander Adams (b. 1973, London) is a British painter. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths College, London in the 1990s before exhibiting widely. His art is in the collection of the V&A, the National Museum of Wales, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, as well as private and corporation collections worldwide. He won the 2018 Artist Scholarship of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco. He has lived in London, Spain and Berlin; he currently lives and works in the North of England.