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In Cappuccino Wilderness Safari, I seek to investigate how the twin-concerns of celebrity and status are expressed through bourgeois tendencies to “life-stylise”. By utilising the encoded aesthetics of suburbia – specifically those of the new-urban ‘gated community’ and the ubiquitous chain ‘coffee-house’ – I attempt to construct a fictionalised narrative of “the wild”.
Gregory Godhard’s background in animation and film is made self-evident, as he playfully remixes art and film references into carefully considered and subtly deranged mis-en-scenes…
Cherish explores the potential for simple decorative consumer objects to act as powerful metaphors for thoughts and emotional states…
Scott Musgrove’s style of figural surrealism carries themes of environmental issues and endangered wildlife concerns with unique humor, depicting anomalous extinct (and fictitious) animal species.
The works take simple human movements, such as shooting a basketball, skateboarding, swinging a golf club, and break down the movements as one would for animation, but instead condense the ‘frames’ onto on image.
Over the last decade or so I’ve been experimenting with this take on abstraction; with the main creative decisions being made over a hot photocopier and in the drawings themselves.
I am trying to draw every person in New York. I will be drawing people everyday and posting as frequently as I can. It is possible that I will draw you without you knowing it.
After the Rainbow is a 2-channel video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a re-imagining of the initial sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s sad life collide…
“My work stems from an intense fear of life or reality. The exaggerated, slightly tormenting characters I create are both a reflection of this fear and a means of gaining control of it. The creatures exist in a paranoid half-reality
“Two young wanderers in full head-dress carve their way, phaneric and conspicuous against an Eden-like landscape. The ambiguity of their sex- the play on masculine and feminine, hard and soft, human and environs – suggests a moment of transience.”