A recent exhibition at Wakefield’s Westgate Studios puts some of my work in context with the interior and exterior environment.
The exhibition falls under the name Artomata and consults the notion of artists in multiple disciplines working under the process of the artist as a machine.
This piece works with the idea of representation. the chess borad is painted, the painting is framed. the subject is the chess board, which is then presented as the the representation. where as the painting as it resides on the floor emenates elements of object, the things that is represented instead of the actual representation itself. the tools of communication and rules are the chess pieces, these are arranged and drawn into the space.
the whole piece interacts with the sun coming through the window. the pattern of gridded fire escape and the radiator inside the sash window. all elements of visuality that interplay with notions of representation.
