Description
"Scott Redford's layered body of work embodies a synthesis of regionalism, identity, abstraction and pop culture. Growing up on the Gold Coast and living in Brisbane, Redford has remained resolutely committed to the iconography of his region: surfboards, motorbikes, palms trees and high rise apartment blocks appear regularly. His interest in subcultural identities feeds into this iconography and surfers, bikers or men who may or may not desire other men also inhabit his imagery.
Redford has worked with the legacy of modernist abstraction in the past, and in 'Boy with surfboard cross' 1999 the cross itself is a vernacular reference to early 20th century abstraction and the work of Malevich, here filtered through the gloss and surf culture of the Gold Coast. Inevitably it also suggests a 'hot Jesus' moment as the handsome blonde boy carries the cross as Christ did his before being crucified. The model for this work is David Rastovich, the former junior world champion surfer." https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/288.2013/#about