Back to the fundamentals....

My work currently is experimentation with scale and paint. Below is 'Reaching for the light' 2010. This was the first 'none gag' piece I have shown in the institute and I think it was recieved quite well. The 'Gag pieces' are a critque of the YBA's and at the time I was so miserable that mocking people was the only way of letting it all out so to speak. To say they was not recieved well would be an understatment but Uni is 3 years to mess up and learn from the consequences. So scraping back to the fundamentals of 'What makes good art?' I have been experimenting with an audience in a relationship to scale, colour and subject. I also wanted to present banal objects and see how I could make these 'Beautiful'. And I found out that you cant make a piece beautiful to everyone because, much like the word love, beauty is not defined with one picture in the dictionary but can be intepretted in many ways.



'Reaching for the light' 2010
2" x 2" oil on canvas.