Green Error Complex

The images are sourced from current mass produced consumer catalogues, television and film. Domestic furniture, chairs and table lamps are repeatedly distilled and rendered into hard edged emotionless motifs that metaphorically can stand in for parts of the self. The light patterns, shadows and negative space take on and become strangely distorted dopplegängers, disposessed yet simultaneously connected to their literal hosts. Constructed within this alienated matrix are the recycled techniques, iconography and colourisation of mid-sixties British pop. The paintings position themselves within this historical context as nostalgic experiments, re-activating pre-counterculture optimism and mixing it with a darker almost post-human contemporary reality.

Mark

Images (from top)

Green Error Complex 3,4,5 (2009)
acrylic on aluminium,
37 x 30.2, 37 x 34.7, 37 x 36cm

Mark (2009)
enamel on aluminium
40 x 36.3 cm

Pink Captive (2008)
acrylic on panel
73.3 x 50.3cm


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Recent Exhibitions:
2010: Private/Public, Gallery 320, London
2009: Smörgåsbord, GXGallery, Dulwich, London
2008: The London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2007: Progression, Ferreira Projects, London
Happy Days, John Jones, London
Dorian Gray, Vegas Gallery, London
Peachy, Project Space, Great Western Studios, London
2006: Marmite Prize, Residence Gallery, London
Painting Show, O Contemporary, Brighton
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
‘Atmosperic Perspectives’ Broughton Gallery, Broughton, Scotland
‘Six Select Artists’ Square One Gallery, London
2005: ‘Positive/Negative’ Square One Gallery, London (solo)
‘Broken Space’ Signatures Gallery, London (solo)
‘Celebration of Geometric Art’ MADI Museum, Dallas
2004: Inspired Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London
Red Cross Charity Auction with Eyestorm, London
‘Celebration of Geometric Art’ Salon Borbonico de San Nicola la Strada, Naples
‘American MADI Artists' MADI Museum & Gallery, Dallas, USA
2003: ‘100 X 23’ JakGallery, Hoxton, London
‘Illusions of Depth’ Off Broadway, Hackney, London (solo)
‘Order and Chaos’ Institute of Physics, London
‘Let There Be Light’ St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (solo)
‘Mutiny at the Bargehouse’ Oxo Tower Wharf, London

Pink Captive