525 Views
10
View In My Room
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 15.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.4 D in
Ships in a Crate
525 Views
10
Showed at the The Other Art Fair
Artist featured in a collection
The first in an ongoing series of 'Nameless heads' started in 2013. An attempt at conveying a vague sensation of alienation, meaninglessness and futility, each of the paintings are relatively small and were produced quickly in either acrylic and oil pastel or oil. Great if your living room needs livening up (lie). Painted in 2014, the original was made whilst the artist was installed in his first London based studio whilst living in the Manor House area of Haringey, a zone known widely for its tendency to be riddled with anti-social flesh malfunctions, criminal swans, depressed concrete and assorted bad smells. The studio was located within the areas small but thriving warehouse community, an ex-industrial estate once the centre of global ham-packing. Abandoned and unloved for a decade after the great Ham Is Putrid Shit revelation in the early noughties it has now been revived and is a paradise for young creatives that enjoy lecturing proles on the evils of plastic bags whilst pushing drugs into orifices that many a poor Mexican lost their head to enable them to do so. There are also several interesting cats on the site worthy of note, including one with a self-aware human hand growing out of its chest, one that looks a bit like Hitler and another that wears one high-heel shoe on its back left paw. This painting is made on a 50x40cm canvas, is unframed and does not include fixtures for hanging.
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
15.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.4 D in
Not Framed
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My work is about nothing. It is about yearning. It is about the lunatic pursuit of purpose and meaning, in empty spaces and dead ends, in brain-bending fantasy and fanatic ideology, be it religious, political, occult or otherwise. It is about hiding and lying and the myth of progress. The figures I paint are lost, in rooms without doors and voids without walls, beyond the vaguest glimmer of reality with no hope of return, exactly as they would wish it were they ever again able even to perceive the notion. They are symbolic of this moment, its total capitulation to impenetrable narcissism and shameless indulgence of base instinct oblivious to consequence, to the hell-bent suicide of consumer capitalism, their mutations manifestations of dying spirit and sickness of soul, of their owners repressed fears, inadequacies, distant desires and inescapable solitude. They long for what they can never have without deceiving themselves. Worse than tragic, their movements are meaningless. My work is a meditation on this predicament, every piece either an attempted exorcism of futility or a desperate grasping at fleeting beauty and momentary loss of self-conciousness to said pleasure. A tangible solidification of the creeping nihilism that permeates every atom of this age, it is a view of life as mere spectacle or aimless chaos and an exploration of the minds ceaseless rejection of such. And ultimately it is about how it feels to exist without faith in anything beyond love. My work is about nothing.
Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London, London, London
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