Whilst it is true that today art is no longer very concerned with the realistic representation of nature (for that use we have invented the camera), it still retains its character as an agent of transformation of the real and visible, as processed by the individual imagination. This process of transmutation retains elements of the real world, traces of life as seen and experienced personally or assimilated in pre-digested form via the media.
Nowadays, the artist is free to invent and play at being creator of their own alternative worlds and populate them, sci-fi style, with genealogies of fantastic beings. Yet this freedom is tampered with. Closer to home, our minds are being colonized as if by another planetary empire.
The world that surrounds us is full of persuasive projections designed to create new needs, the satisfaction of which is the primary vocation and engine of our economy. By presenting us with products supposed to satisfy those needs the promise of comfort and satisfaction is held out. Right alongside these seductive images we find worrying news items intending to inform about the real world, showing social chaos and environmental decay.
We are surrounded by this audiovisual backdrop, which invades every corner of our lives; stacks of de-contextualized visual matter accumulate. The modern mind has to encompass the extremes of this wall-to-wall environment, potentially creative as well as confusing. Thus supplied, the artist has plenty of base matter to appropriate and deform.
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watercolours 2006–2007
drawings, etchings 2004-2007
paintings 2006
drawings, photographs, watercolours 1995–2007
watercolours, photographs, drawings 1996–2007
drawings, lithographs, screenprints, etchings 1992–2007
drawings, watercolours, etchings 2005–2007