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Over a period several months, I have been busy creating a new body of work. It has been a very considered time spent thinking and constructing, but can now unveil my new creations. I would like to commit these to an exhibition at some point, and in the meantime shall be sending exhibition proposals to galleries and appropriate/alternative spaces to showcase the new work.
'Altered State', brings together a series of collages, assembled from postcards, newsprint, wire structures, remnants, fabric, woven components and other such miscellany from my personal archive of materials and images of interest collected over the years, and discarded from previous projects.
Themes include the shadow, sexuality, identity and the self, altered states, forms of erasure, second skin, shrouds and new states of mind. A number of pieces include homages to other artists or to their works, while other contemporary artists and artefact are referenced elsewhere in the series.
The use of collage has opened sets of possibilities that allowed me to make free assoications to use found imagery and create imagined 'imago', experimenting within a framework of the body and self portraiture that explore parallels within the self that shape themselves and shift from the mere remnants to metafigurative beings.
Over a period several months, I have been busy creating a new body of work. It has been a very considered time spent thinking and constructing, but can now unveil my new creations. I would like to commit these to an exhibition at some point, and in the meantime shall be sending exhibition proposals to galleries and appropriate/alternative spaces to showcase the new work.
'Altered State', brings together a series of collages, assembled from postcards, newsprint, wire structures, remnants, fabric, woven components and other such miscellany from my personal archive of materials and images of interest collected over the years, and discarded from previous projects.
Themes include the shadow, sexuality, identity and the self, altered states, forms of erasure, second skin, shrouds and new states of mind. A number of pieces include homages to other artists or to their works, while other contemporary artists and artefact are referenced elsewhere in the series.
The use of collage has opened sets of possibilities that allowed me to make free assoications to use found imagery and create imagined 'imago', experimenting within a framework of the body and self portraiture that explore parallels within the self that shape themselves and shift from the mere remnants to metafigurative beings.