The Banal Lapses of Heroes is a body of Paintings, Prints, Drawings and Sculpture made from 2010 to the present, that operates something akin to a reconstruction or reinterpretation of existing stories or events that already sit in the collective memory, drawn from somewhere in time and yet outside temporal space.
By working through archetypal forms, characters emerge that challenge fixed ideas about trust, faith and the unknown and the work becomes totemic of a deep drive to externalise hidden things through characterisation. Moreover, my work reflects a preoccupation with memory and nostalgia, where an image can posit a peculiar melancholy or sense of the uncanny, through a memorialization of the past, constructed through archetypal heroes, tricksters and bizarre phenomena.
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Mark A Metcalfe
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London UK
United Kingdom
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