Throughout, we witness an implicit acknowledgement of abandonment, isolation and identity-failure, balanced deftly by a subversive positioning of the spectator. There is an exploration of how as an idea is disseminated and graduates from its source, it degrades, deteriorates and is slowly emptied of its meaning.
Missing is a desire to derive ultimate meaning from replication. In its place, there rests a muted nod to what we learn and what we lose in the process. There is a risk in showing preparatory measures. We are not prepared for it, nor are we ushered toward what it articulates. The veneer of candour is fragile. Beneath its controlled lines there exists a chaos crafted through the obstructive paradox of diligence and disorder.
A stroke on a page does not denote meaning. It is as vacant as the instrument that delivered it. A stroke is nothing more than a bruise; an insult to the architect whose only compulsion is to create. It exists on the surface against the unrelenting axes of time and space. Behind the minutiae and chaos there lies an invisible pattern both simple and profound, pining for its revelatory power to remain hidden.
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13 May 2011
SOLO EXHIBITION
EPISTEMIC MONOMANIA
a selection of new drawings, showing at 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
25.6.2010 - 4.7.2010
preview with the usual trimmings on friday 25th june - 6pm - 8pm.
the gallery is open on saturday and sunday 10am - 5pm and monday to friday by appointment only.
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1 June 2010
10 October 2009
DESIGN EVENT 09
myself and Spiderhouse Productions have been approached to exhibit a selection of concept art for a project in development called SIMOX.
this year's Design Event festival explores the theme of Politics and Play.
the festival runs from 16-25 October.
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26 November 2008
LVA08
as part of Live Art Works 08, Star and Shadow present a forthcoming group exhibition. there will be a installaion on my part as well as other artists including Edwin Li, Rachel Maloney, Peter Jackson and Tom Schofield.
we will be showing for this one night only - 28th november.
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1 October 2008
GALLERY NORTH
kicking off Gallery North's 2008 - 09 programme, Harry Watton and i will be exhibiting a new body of work that aims to demonstrate our attitude of drawing as a tool of visual communication in both our respective practices.
wine and all that at the private view on 1st october from 5-7pm. the exhibition runs until 10th.
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