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This picture is my first venture into using canvas. It was an experiment to test my process on a different medium; a medium that appeals not only for its romantic place in Art History but also for its durability. Setting up for an exhibition, I'd jealously watched a fellow artist casually handling a bag full of canvases while I nervously carried my bubble-wrapped frame, paranoid that the slightest bump would result in the sound of tinkling glass. I soon realised I'd have to adapt my process as obviously I couldn't chop up the canvas and using masking tape proved awkward. This became one of those pictures you put to one side, unsure how to proceed, which is quite rare for me. It was almost a year in the making. I finally began to make progress when I started using tracing and tissue paper which enabled the transparency I needed to build up the layers and depth. It also bonded with the canvas much better and created a really nice, flakey texture. By chopping up strips of my drawings before glueing, I think the picture became more abstracted. Usually, my work is self-contained - I chop a bit out here and swap it with a piece there. 'Timelapse' became more ephemeral as I didn't feel the need to use everything. An exercise in 'less is more' perhaps. I’m influenced by sticker art and graffiti but more specifically the impermanence of urban walls; how they naturally change over time with the adding of tags, stickers and paste-ups, but also the subtraction of parts that are ripped and weathered. It’s man-made and yet it’s evolved in a very natural way.
This picture is my first venture into using canvas. It was an experiment to test my process on a different medium; a medium that appeals not only for its romantic place in Art History but also for its durability. Setting up for an exhibition, I'd jealously watched a fellow artist casually handling a bag full of canvases while I nervously carried my bubble-wrapped frame, paranoid that the slightest bump would result in the sound of tinkling glass. I soon realised I'd have to adapt my process as obviously I couldn't chop up the canvas and using masking tape proved awkward. This became one of those pictures you put to one side, unsure how to proceed, which is quite rare for me. It was almost a year in the making. I finally began to make progress when I started using tracing and tissue paper which enabled the transparency I needed to build up the layers and depth. It also bonded with the canvas much better and created a really nice, flakey texture. By chopping up strips of my drawings before glueing, I think the picture became more abstracted. Usually, my work is self-contained - I chop a bit out here and swap it with a piece there. 'Timelapse' became more ephemeral as I didn't feel the need to use everything. An exercise in 'less is more' perhaps. I’m influenced by sticker art and graffiti but more specifically the impermanence of urban walls; how they naturally change over time with the adding of tags, stickers and paste-ups, but also the subtraction of parts that are ripped and weathered. It’s man-made and yet it’s evolved in a very natural way.
This picture is my first venture into using canvas. It was an experiment to test my process on a different medium; a medium that appeals not only for its romantic place in Art History but also for its durability. Setting up for an exhibition, I'd jealously watched a fellow artist casually handling a bag full of canvases while I nervously carried my bubble-wrapped frame, paranoid that the slightest bump would result in the sound of tinkling glass. I soon realised I'd have to adapt my process as obviously I couldn't chop up the canvas and using masking tape proved awkward. This became one of those pictures you put to one side, unsure how to proceed, which is quite rare for me. It was almost a year in the making. I finally began to make progress when I started using tracing and tissue paper which enabled the transparency I needed to build up the layers and depth. It also bonded with the canvas much better and created a really nice, flakey texture. By chopping up strips of my drawings before glueing, I think the picture became more abstracted. Usually, my work is self-contained - I chop a bit out here and swap it with a piece there. 'Timelapse' became more ephemeral as I didn't feel the need to use everything. An exercise in 'less is more' perhaps. I’m influenced by sticker art and graffiti but more specifically the impermanence of urban walls; how they naturally change over time with the adding of tags, stickers and paste-ups, but also the subtraction of parts that are ripped and weathered. It’s man-made and yet it’s evolved in a very natural way.

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Timelapse Collage

Nick Maroussas

United Kingdom

Collage, Paper

Size: 11.8 W x 16.1 H x 0.8 D in

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This picture is my first venture into using canvas. It was an experiment to test my process on a different medium; a medium that appeals not only for its romantic place in Art History but also for its durability. Setting up for an exhibition, I'd jealously watched a fellow artist casually handling a...

Year Created:

2018

Subject:

Graffiti

Styles:

Abstract Expressionism

, 

Cubism

, 

Expressionism

, 

Modern

, 

Street Art

 

Mediums:

Paper

, 

Paint

, 

Acrylic

, 

Spray Paint

, 

Marker

 

Mediums:

Collage, Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

11.8 W x 16.1 H x 0.8 D in

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No

Frame:

Not Framed

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I am a mixed-media artist based in London. My collages explore the boundaries between the man-made and nature, reanimating found materials, shapes and colours, often the by-products of design. New arrangements are constructed by assimilating inherited material and processing with a mechanical mindset. I believe these serendipitous compositions could hold some inherent value which might offer us a fleeting glimpse of our connection with the world.

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