The Iron Men were a Canadian artist collective consisting of John Scott (1950-2022), Gary Michael Dault (b. 1939) and Matthew Varey (b.1968), founded in 2005. The creation of their works is an act of continual, consensual critique, with each of the artists taking the suggestions and actions of the other two seriously until some mutual agreement is attained — which brings the work to its final form. The Iron Men worked midway between the realms of abstraction and the generation of raw, gritty paintings often built upon strongly realized shapes or images — usually reinforced by spontaneous applications of text.
