The Satiric Grotesque | Artsy The Satiric Grotesque brings together artists who use distortion, humour and bodily unease to make the human image slip. Across painting, collage, drawing and sculpture, faces become masks and identity becomes staged - comic, unsettling, excessive and sharply revealing.

The Satiric Grotesque is now live.

2 April - 3 May 2026

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Eric Banks,
Tomb, 2007
Acrylic and Paper fusion on Canvas
40 × 50 in | 101.5 x 127 cm

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Eric Banks - Mind Garden. Slow, built painting made through layering, scraping and revision. Forms press up from within the surface - part figure, part structure. Work that rewards time, not speed.

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Eric Banks | Comedian (2009) | Available for Sale | Artsy Available for sale from Blackbird Rook, Eric Banks, Comedian (2009), Acrylic-paper fusion on board, 101.5 × 127 cm

Eric Banks
Comedian, 2009
Acrylic-paper fusion on board
101.5 × 127 cm

In Comedian, humour becomes a structure rather than a release.

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Every so often you come across a body of work that stops you: a serious, under-recognised painter whose depth has quietly outpaced their visibility. That’s been my experience encountering Eric Banks.

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