Paintings
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The Water Bows, Receives Her, Drowns Her at its Ease
Acrylic on Canvas
181 x 229cm
2007
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It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Acrylic on Canvas
191 x 145cm
2007
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Mother, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head
Acrylic on Canvas
244 x 147cm
2007
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Young Ones Fall to the Rocks Below
Acrylic on Canvas
137 x 244cm
2006
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I Wear Black on the Outside
Acrylic on Canvas
2 x 183 x 92cm
2006
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Small Works
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Show
Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 100cm
2008
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I Let My Paint Bleed Black & Blue
Acrylic & Spray Paint on Canvas
40 x 100cm
2007
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Drawings
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Call Me Morbid
Pencil on Paper
76x56cm
2007
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PROJECT STATEMENT
The focus of my work has been the idea of escapism, whether through youth subcultures or by directly referencing historical utopian visions. In my latest series of works, I have attempted to create a series of tableaux that discuss a variety of issues that effect young people. Partly inspired by the films of John Hughes and the 'Brat Pack' and their cynical attempts encapsulate the zeitgeist of the period; I have contrived a way of developing a body of work that embodies the experience of youth. As with my more recent work, these paintings are also drawn from a narrative base, which is supplied through a network of acquaintances and based upon real experiences sent to me as prose. It is my intention to create a continual narrative that runs throughout the body of work based around the relationships between a selection of individuals. They will feature either singly or as a group and be completely interchangeable, appearing randomly situations so that it will appear as though we are tracking the lives of a group of friends over a period of time, in a similar way to a soap opera. Their lives will become intertwined as their relationships commence or disintegrate.
Another key reference in my work is the signifiers taken from historical works of art. These are suggested in the work through the appropriation of composition, gestures or objects. The selection of these works is to allude to the narrative that forms the basis of the work linking my own work to continuation of painting's history.
In a society marked by increasing mobility, my work reflects the desire for intimacy. I have chosen to create a Utopia within the fabric of my work that draws parallels between desires of the past and those present in our own society.
