Georgie Mattingley
Supper 2006 (detail)
oil on canvas
152.0 x 213.0 cm
St Leonard’s College, Brighton East
 
I was inspired by my visit to the Louvre in 2005 and by seeing large Italian masterpieces. My reappropriation of Caravaggio’s masterpiece, Supper at Emmaus, is intended to create tension by incorporating bold and contemporary symbolism with harmonious surroundings. My painting of the Last Supper reinterprets the famous scene from the Bible and demonstrates how, in modern times, our internal feelings of enlightenment may clash with our external environment.