1.A diagram of ideas for the new series, indicating both a studio-based and performance aspect to the work. The listings are combined with technical descriptions applying to the work as well as discussion of their subject matter.
Homemade
currently untitled (part 1/3)
before now
Previous in my studio-based practice, the self-coined term ‘urban casualties’ characterised a city-driven search for the familiar and discarded (often in the one image plane) for an urban audience. These paintings and drawings often focused on objects that stood as a disguised language of the underworld; rumours that shoes hanging from powerlines indicating the presence of a drug-dealer in close proximity were frequent subjects as well as many other coded-responses l interpreted as being abstractly linked to some unpleasant, exciting. hidden urban entity. The possibility of my own miscalculations and the probability of paranoia (the later rolled up in the excitement of embarking on the series) in selecting and exploring the dark properties of these subjects created an ambiguity about the truth of what l was producing, linked quickly as a daring to portray the world as the artist sees, an undercurrent in how i've always interpreted art practice.
Jim S
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