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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Category: Painting
  • Technique: Oil
  • Medium: Canvas
  • Theme: Figure Painting
  • Measurements: 7.87 x 9.84 in
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  • Tags: white, girl, water, black, man, 1950s

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Artwork description

This is one of a series of recent oil paintings articulating lost or corrupted innocence. The subject is appropriated from a found photograph, depicting what appear to be the mundane and prosaic events and incidents of everyday life; however, separated from contextual references with both the subject and origin unknown, an absurd and unwholesome ambiguity is allowed to emerge. By re-presenting an image that is initially perceived as unproblematic, the viewer is encouraged to invent possible narratives: fantasy revives the scene, allowing innuendo and a heightened sense of drama to extend meaning beyond what is depicted. Fantasy, then, is co-opted so as to return the viewer to reality, and to consider the banal and quotidian in new terms. The painting’s realism becomes a means to not only engage the potential of imagination, but to explore the potential for significance.

Artist information

My art is an interrogation of western culture's beliefs and values, and an exploration of the tension between faith and doubt, physical desire and spiritual longing. It can be read as an articulation of the uncertainty and irreconcilable antagonisms inherent in our existence.

Images and text are sourced from the cultural ephemera of film, magazines, pulp fiction and pornography, dislocating and setting them adrift from their original contextual moorings. Although the appropriated subjects?...

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