I’ve been experimenting with the idea of the film strip and working in both positive and negative.
A film strip in negative allows for text to sit over the top of a dense tonal base. In some ways this is preferable to large areas of white. This is part of a separate but related idea of a street at night and a journey through a terraced street of identical housing. There are number of experimental versions, each four to five metres in length.
It hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about the slow demise of the baby boomer generation and a shift in the profile of art collectors, that I am part of that generation and all that it accomplished, not just artistically but as the motivating force behind...
Maybe there is a logic to this process that is simply beyond me, and I suspect, to much of the art world where even dealers are mystified, while the general public are inevitably in the dark to the point where they have stopped caring. In October 2022 the...
There has long been a belief that active or passive exposure to the Arts, and particularly the visual arts, as manifestations of human intellectual achievement, can shape the ideas, customs, social behaviour and culture of a particular people or society. In ancient...