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Self 2023 Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 35.4 W x 35.4 H x 1.6 D in
About The Artwork
'Self 2023' was begun in 2020 during the initial Covid lockdowns and went through a number of incarnations through the pandemic before being instrumental in the artist securing an Arts Council Grant to develop his interest in portraiture.. In the words of the artist, "An ingrained need to explore a subject beyond the physical, to create, to take calculated risks, and yes, to pose difficult questions of ourselves, has always been uppermost in my approach as an artist. Portraiture throughout has remained an essential part of my practice, a passion embracing this approach fully. Supported by Arts Council England, as a major part of my brief here - the intention - to develop a new body of work through painting in particular, which builds upon the current conversations surrounding mental illness and my own journey navigating my way out of the mire - they say there are three kinds of artists: the perverse, the neurotic, and the psychotic. Well, I believe the spectrum to be much wider and more colourful. While negating my own notions of portraiture, perhaps even the very way mental illness itself has been devoid of a voice historically throughout a rather chequered past historically - I hope to some extent to reflect just a little of the journey here, reflecting this year's body of work and, wherever yet that may lead ."
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:35.4 W x 35.4 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
Taken as a whole, the work I’ve produced over the years probably puts me in the ‘narrative camp’ as an artist, but not obviously so. To make sense of my images, you most likely need to piece them together for yourself - for me, the ongoing process in practice relying on suggestion and dislocated form to evoke multiple readings. The starting point for a work is no less diverse. Drawn to an array of ‘subject matter’, it is the constructed world where I find my motivation lies. Film and TV, Religion and Family, Urban and Rural topography, it is things such as these which have significantly shaped who I am today, and this which acts as both subject and vehicle for the work to develop and evolve. Without doubt, my strategies and how I respond to a piece in progress is personal, though not autobiographical in conventional understanding. For one such example, religion has been a topic I have returned to time and again, though I hold no religious beliefs myself. Rather, the subject explores my encounters and response to the daily rituals living with those I have been deeply involved with over the years who live with strong beliefs themselves. All in all, the initial motivation for a piece may well remain and develop but more often than not be discarded, guiding the dialogue back and forth until a wider cultural perspective emerges, only then to throw back the next line of enquiry.
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