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A combination of slick and battered surfaces reside in the irregular panels of Jackson’s work. Sharp angled triangular and rectangular forms make up the pictorial space of these shaped paintings, disorientating the viewer with their lack of any conventional composition. The viewer navigates this space uneasily or pleasurably, moving between illusional and physical areas of the work. Jackson references several craft processes from the history of art, exploiting the sculptural tradition of chiselling and the language of abstraction in the form of drips and ‘Richter squeegee marks’ to achieve fragments of painterly experience. |
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DR pushes ‘painting’ to its limits, so that the work starts to take on sculptural properties and trompe l’oeil
features. DR juxtaposes expressive abstract acrylic and oil brushstrokes with figurative features and collaged
compositions of found materials, photos and sketched studies of his other works. References Pop Art,
consumer culture, Caravaggio and Dutch Old Masters. 2001 London Visual Arts Award. International
exhibitions. In many collections including Museum of Modern Art New York. Purchased by CAS. |
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Born in London. Lives and works in London.
In his highly charged and emotive 'hybrid photo/paint/print collages', Lamb trawls mercilessly through his and the world’s collective memory bank, unearthing fragments of hidden truth and forgotten realisations. The result is a series of newly defined and deftly designed truths that feign a sort of mystical authority for our contemporary times. Suggesting the revolutionaries of Fluxus and the Situationist International, Lamb's sharp juxtapositions and innovative compositions recall the aesthetics of the mid-century's upheaval. These jarring yet elegant compositions are born of a process, |
