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'Point Of Entry' Painting

Martin Dukes

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Plastic

Size: 27.2 W x 23.4 H x 0.6 D in

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About The Artwork

This painting was made by routing a grid onto two plastic sheets, clamping them and then systematically injecting different colours of acrylic paint through the structure with a syringe. The paint finds its way through the objects' latticework and settles randomly between the sheets, assigning a colour to each of the squares within the grid. Once the object is filled, the final composition and colour changes are painted on the surface, based on the placement of colours that have been randomly ‘selected’ by the object itself. The title 'Point Of Entry' specifically refers to the small window hovering pointedly left-of-center whose surface remains unpainted. As with the drilled holes in the surface and the edges of the plastic, it reveals the process. It acts as a gentle nudge for the beholder to begin decoding the works' material composition. Far from being a window to the soul, this purposeful pragmatism attempts to debunk the mythologies that serve to give "Painting" its rarefied status. As with the majority of my work I am interested in the point at which the viewer begins to reflect upon themselves - that in beholding a work we are in a constant state of flux and that rather than giving answers, an artwork should aim to beguile - its' artifice allowing for the formation and formulation of new questions...

Details & Dimensions

Painting:Acrylic on Plastic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27.2 W x 23.4 H x 0.6 D in

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Martin lives and works in Eastleigh, a town sandwiched between the New Forest and the South Downs. His practice explores the relationship between support and image, material and surface. Sampling from art history and borrowing from everyday objects, the work mixes elements together from disparate areas to form subtle conceits. Although systems-based in conception, Martin investigates the point at which a work becomes its own thing, in spite of the myriad references and processes that have informed its making.

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