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More work…less play makes the work less developed. As soon as things become too considered, the meaning is lost. I'm becoming frustrated with the insinuation that painting 'intuitively' means without intellectual awareness. Inspired now by Polke and Kitaj, its time […]
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Its all getting out of hand….paintings a go go, and black fingernails until the show. I keep mixing up real characters with false or historic. Each with their own hidden meaning for me. The question is whether the variants of […]
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one week on…
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Untitled blog post from "Glasgow School of Art"
My private rebellion against mainstream 'statement' orientated art has manifested itself in the traditions of painting and writing. I allude to narrative, with an awareness of the inevitable illusion of aesthetics. We should be searching continually for answers. This rebuke […]
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New paintings… exploring the fantasy land of the familiar, the irony of art as artifice, in order to critique the position of the fantasized gaze…
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Untitled blog post from "Glasgow School of Art"
Meet the baby jesus. He began life as a girl, purchased from a charity shop in the south side of glasgow. His sex change constituted of having his hair chopped off. His body was already of pin cushion consistency, which […]
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Here is Hugh. Hugh is a Ken doll who has been elevated to hermaphrodite status courtesy of my friend and peer Kaye Harper, who dotingly knitted him a bikini featuring both male and female reproductive systems. He wares a 'guilty' […]
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Now for Tiffany. Tiffany is a manikin who was left in my studio in 3rd year, became my friend when I painted on her hair and make-up, was given to my friend Brooke who later moved in with me, and […]
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Meet David. The great work of Michaelangelo reduced to jigsaw postcard. Unfortunately this was not the end of his troubles, as I have further mutilated him by swapping certain pieces I have appropriated sentiment to for the occasion. The occasion […]
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It’s all a bit hazy! My rebellion against conservative, ‘post-ironic’, conceptualism and my attempt at using a handheld video camera for still photos. My advanced apologies for any offence either will inevitably cause. Where’s the humanity? After delving into installation […]