Rod Kitson

I am an artist based in London and my work is concerned with the experiential and developmental elements of a daily practice.
My temporal projects have taken in life-size painted recreations of my live-in workspace, portraiture and reimagined figure drawing.

Machines for Living In

The representation work on sale here comes from my Machines for Living In project which began in 2018. For 190 straight days I documented my lived experience by painting a 1sq-ft section of my studio-flat every day. It was about honesty and acceptance.
Honesty in terms of the technique (or lack of) on that day, the level of will (to spend time and concentration), and the actual time constraints around the act of living and other commitments.
And acceptance of the work under those constraints, which meant I the work made was not always what I set out to make.

I exhibited this in 2019 and sold it ‘by the square-foot’, because of the workmanlike way in which it was created. I was left with a problem that the body of work had holes in it.
It was then that I decided this would be a self-regenerating piece of work which would now represent time passing in a more expansive way:
Every time I sell a piece, I go back to the section and repaint it ...

Foundation
Ba Hons

2019 - Machines for Living In (Art by the Square Foot)

2020 - The Art of Isolation (curated group show)
- Class of 2020
- Charity Shop of Art (curated group show)

2021 - Blue Lotus
- The Other Art Fair

2022 - Wells Art Contemporary