My practise generally involves
the process of documentation. Ranging fromt the recording of a landscape
in paint through to the simplest line sketches of subject matter
made on site.
Recent contemporary paintings worked in acrylic on canvas include
local landscapes showing Hale ('Pathway') and Formby ('The Pine
Clump').
Traditional drawing plays an important part in my work. Past projects
such as 'Slices of Domesticity' and 'Archive' show traditional drawing
skills melded with the use of untraditional surfaces, namely toilet
paper and found rubble.
'After the Banquet' is a piece of work designed specifically for
the Williamson Tunnels. Shards of pottery found during the ongoing
excavation of the site are recorded in detailed biro drawings onto
used polystyrene fast food containers.
References are made to the nature of the landfill found in the
tunnels, i.e. the predominance of blue and white china fragments,
an integral part of the Victorian and Edwardian dinner service.
These contrast sharply with the takeaway containers of current fast
food culture, which of course will form the landfill of the future
world. The artwork is displayed on a white clothed table here parallels
are being drawn with Joseph Williamson who is rumoured to have held
formal underground banquets in the tunnels in the early 19th century. |
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