New Work Friday #34

“This work was created for Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s annual members’ show, where this year’s theme was “Fakes, Forgeries and Appropriations”. I’ve printed on some original works from Mike Parr’s 1971 series Word Situations , which Parr states are “concerned with my investigation into the problem of meaning and language” I wanted to contrast Parr’s work with my own investigation of how language, graphic design and mass media are used to shape our behaviour and create new cultural “structures” of their own. Plus, I liked the idea of destroying a Mike Parr artwork,” – Bernie Slater 2009.