Biography
In Edwin Aitken’s recent works a number of recognisable images based upon the body and the built environment are generated as a part of a more outwardly expressive and intuitive approach to making art.
The presence of ambiguous and specific areas of detail contribute to the overall meaning of the final images and make a metaphorical connection to how the potentially shifting notion of personal identity is (and can be) defined. The juxtaposition of images from a suburban environment such as houses and gardens, with those of the human body also raises ideas relating to reality and escapism, masculinity/domesticity and highlights the security and limitations of the physical and mental spaces we inhabit.
The presence of various imagery from suburbia and their relation to the human form is particularly relevant to the way in which the home and the body are regarded as places of personal and safe spaces (inextricably bound with the person who occupies them) which, in the Twenty First Century, are increasingly seen as being under an increased sense of destabilisation from external threats.
In his work a number of recognisable images based upon the body and the built environment are generated as a part of a more outwardly expressive and intuitive approach to drawing and painting.
The presence of ambiguous and specific areas of detail contribute to the overall meaning of the final images and make a metaphorical connection to how the potentially shifting notion of personal identity is (and can be) defined. The juxtaposition of images from a suburban environment such as houses and gardens, with those of the human body also raises ideas relating to reality and escapism, masculinity/domesticity and highlights the security and limitations of the physical and mental spaces we inhabit.
