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United Kingdom
Collage, Paper on Paper
Size: 8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0 D in
Ships in a Crate
From the series "Hollywood Remakes" Collage of magazine covers The first in a series of pictures I've made taking pictures by artists whose work I admire and recreating them through the style I use in all my art. The pictures are distilled into basic blocks or areas and then separate covers are used to fill each area. The covers themselves are torn to fit the lines of the blocks and rearranged from the original cover. As in all my work, the effect of tearing and reassembling is to signify the idea of created identity and confusion of identity. Magazines present their readers with different commands about how they should live their lives - what clothes to wear, what movies to watch, what to do to get that special man in your life... The majority of magazines aimed at men particularly present ideas of masculinity that can be seen as comfortable and safe for the "traditional" male but isolating if you don't buy into this stereotype. I'm interested in how we are affected in our behaviour by external messages such as what we read in magazines, and how you create your identity as a man if you disagree with these. The reassembling of ripped pieces represents this confusion - how you are told you should feel and how you actually feel. Richard Hamilton, as I'm sure for most people, was one of my gateway drugs into the world of Pop Art. And since my pictures regularly draw on Pop imagery because of the use of magazines (and those magazines' continual use of celebrity and products), it seemed only right that his work would be the first that I would reinterpret.
Collage:Paper on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Born in 1979 in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Lives and works in Nottingham. I am a collage artist who uses abstraction, geometric patterns, and analogue attempts at recreating the effects of digital glitching to explore issues of identity, memory, masculinity, cultural expectations, mental health, the distorting effect of media, and social class. My work is created using pages and covers from magazines which are then folded and torn (or occasionally cut) then pasted together to reappropriate and juxtapose images in fractured and fragmented form. Whilst there are occasional larger pieces, most work is on common A4 paper sheets (many of which have been previously used for other purposes) that are easy to acquire, easy to digitally scan, and easy to frame. That immediacy is important as it is a demonstration of how art and artistic thought should be accessible to all given that the issues covered in the work affect everyone. Built layer upon layer, the pictures are densely detailed. Care is taken to consider both the images used and how the placement on the page both reveals and hides different elements – symbolising how, in both our identities and in wider societal structures, only certain things are made overt whilst other things are intentionally or inadvertently concealed.
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