Oliver Cain is an English/ New Zealand artist living in Auckland. His artworks push the boundaries between conceptualism and post-pop art and bear a certain physicality, varying from ceramic sculptures to installations. The creative process behind Cain's artworks is the most important thing and therefore his artworks can be made of anything and take any form. Appropriated everyday objects transform stereotypes and famous art historical references become twisted. As proud member of the queer community, he uses his work to examine, question and criticize the relationships between gender, (homo)sexuality and societies' misconceptions about those themes.
But despite what it might look like to the contemporary spectator, a purely erotic and queer reading of the work would be misguided. There is a universal profundity at play revealing itself slowly for those willing to look and feel.