Monday, 23 April 2012
Thursday, 19 April 2012
David Mach
Love and Fuck – are part of a whole series of postcard and playing card collage that David has been working on for years. These are heavy homages to artists work that he likes. Re-makes. Visits to work which then change because of the nature of the postcard/collage process. The result is a new work, not copied but heavily inspired by the originals and taken through to another, different stage.
David has made many of these over the years, exploring art history and rediscovering the works of art that inspire him. The Love and Fuck in this catalogue are made against playing cards. The Love and Fuck in the actual show are set against Christmas cards. David loves these cards and the way all of that extra glitter and messaging and cheer comes through. Love and Fuck seem particularly poignant against them and he can see a longer relationship developing out of Robert Indiana’s original in the future. He says, ‘You might see not just Love and Fuck, but Cunt and Shit and so on! We’ll have to see how it develops.’
Denis Whiteside
PENGUIN
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| Screen-print in three parts on Fabriano Tiepolo paper 151x100. Edition: twelve, (six blue, six mauve) |
From rationality to absurdity; the particular to the unspecific; self-defining mundaneness, these are some of the immaterial aspects that inform Whiteside’s text based work.
Through obfuscation he consciously operates where contrarious notions occur. When he states that ‘Nothing is nothing’, he may mean it’s something.
His art is all about the journey, the process and, like Samuel Beckett (possibly his biggest influence), he believes pasionately that “Art has nothing to do with clarity,does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Adrain Moakes
Adrian is primarily involved in creating site-specific public artworks inspired by local research and consultation, encouraging communities to participate in the enhancement and invigoration of their environment.
He also enjoys creating a variety of work for private and corporate clients, including sculptural furniture and unique pieces for individual gardens and exhibitions. He has made bespoke trophies and installations for schools, TV companies and cultural organizations.
‘Arc Fern’ and ‘Tube Fern’ are two recent pieces that explore the fascinating interrelationship between natural and architectural forms, as well as showing the great versatility of Adrian’s favourite material – steel.
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| Arc Fern |
Amanda Rae
Many of Amanda’s works are assemblages and she explores often using many materials. 'Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form'. (Ovid, Metamorphoses) Amanda’s starting point may be a concept, thought or theme, through which she explores a process of bringing together form and material that invites thought from the viewer’s perspective related to that union.
The use of mannequins within assemblage has become an important aspect in Amanda’s work due to their unsettling representations of the human form, the disturbing sense of the unheimlich which they create. Through these sometimes surreal associations, Amanda explores the sense of liminality inherent in the world, the constant flux that is experienced on a daily basis. The French ethnologist, Arnold van Gennep described these modulations as “liminality, the transitional time or condition in which one, or a group, or a territory, or the season, is not what it was and not what it will become, but something in between, something marginal, vague, and flexible”.
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| Opium Dreams |
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