Venue: Hanover Street, Merchant City, Glasgow

Summary of Artwork:
Temporary, site-responsive bill posters

Biography of artist:
I am interested in aesthetics of Modernist design and painting as well as building sites. My work attempts to join these two disparate influences to create a homemade DIY budget Modernism that is my own art. The physicality of construction-site materials such as plasterboard, sterling board and raw timber as well as the fasteners and screws used to hold it together are all indicative of my interest in dispelling the myth of the creator and the precious nature of the artwork itself. This aesthetic interest and honesty to materials was an important and integral part that determined what materials I worked with.

An interest in the falsity of the grand narratives promoted by Modernity of both positivity and excitement about the future is also a primary concern in my work. However, characteristic of post-Minimalist art in general, the work can change form from one piece to the other depending on materials and the context in which it is realised. This allows for me as an artist to adopt both the roles of a postmodern creator through stylistic changes, as well as utilising the simplicity and beauty of what I see as modernist aesthetics.

Drawing forms an integral and fundamentally important part of my practice. It is through this medium that I exorcise my interests and ideas, and from which point do I begin to create a tangible response to the drawing itself. It is this tension that usually becomes apparent when beginning to develop and further the propositional backbone of the drawing. The resultant creation is often in the form of some sort of proposal or proposition, whereby the viewer is nudged into dialogue with the work whether it be simple thoughts, or interaction within the created environment.

The creation of alcoves, or a niche in which the work resides, is also a central point of interest for my work. Like the inconspicuous black cover of the sketchbook that hides the propositional inventions and ideas within, the fashioning of a niche acts as the same ‘cloak’ acting as tool to immediately contextualise the artwork. From this point, I attempt to create architectural prototypes, objects and affirmations from what I see as my self-appointed role as a lay preacher; along the way, hinting at a sense of what may have been.