Biography
My recent work: Defeating Victory, engages with boldly colored figurative paintings that propse a blend between whimsical narration and political engagement. With an un-faltering realism and through a combination of portraits, still-life and fantasy environments, this work intends to resuscitate response and re-enliven a faith for political images through a disassociation with the characters and events of today. My conceptual framework combines the historical presentation of culturally shared stories; and with the pervasiveness of the internet, a re-surgence of a virtual form of word of mouth; regular people actively responding to current events. Images of all kinds are found un-adulterated and un-censored: From uncomprimising military violence to irrelavent photographs of wedding cakes and dishware. Virtual fairy-tales emerge in every day banality. Appropriately sourced with Google images and the mainstream media, these narrative constructs aim at re-presenting moral claims that demand questioning. As I attempt to store, record and restore our faith in story-telling, the stage and the power is taken from classic fairy-tales and adapted to suit the agency of our times.
