The timed auction ends Thursday July 9th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Christopher R. Inwood
Glint, 2026
oil acrylic charcoal in wood
Height 50 cm x Width 40 cm
Artwork is unframed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $900
In Glint, Christopher R. Inwood distils self-portraiture to its most sensitive and searching. His face emerges from a field of the “bluest blue that can be blued” – a colour both infinite and intimate, at once possessing and vulnerable. The blue becomes more than a backdrop; it is atmosphere, emotion and the psychological space in which thoughts are held and revealed.
the title speaks to a moment – brief, bright, and elusive – when something catches the light. It suggests intuition, resilience and the quiet persistence of something unbroken. Inwood’s gaze is steady yet inward, alert to the world turned towards the self. There is no performance here, only presence.
Part of the unseen Cannon Fodder Blue Collection. Glint continues Inwood’s exploration of masculinity and the private emotional lives of men. Small in scale yet profound in feeling, the painting is unflinching and tender offering neither defense nor defeat, but a hard-won clarity.
Glint rewards close looking. It is a portrait of a man, and a meditation on awareness – the spark that keeps us open, alive and becoming.
Artist Bio: Inwood has exhibited across Australia at galleries, art spaces, and festivals including, Brisbane Power House, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Brisbane Square Library, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional gallery, Brisbane Street Art Festival and has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize x 3, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Percival Portrait Painting Prize x 2, the Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award, Melt Portrait Prize x 3. Inwood refined his understanding of art and its histories at The University of Queensland studying Art History.