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| Brave New World, 2008 |
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| Lost Boys (Meet Bear 414), 2008 |
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| Unconditioned By The Apparent World Of Sense, 2008 |
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| Surface Matters, 2008 |
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| Study for Brave New World, 2008 |
Michael Andrews once described painting as “the most marvellous, elaborate way of making up his mind”; I too use painting to explore and understand the world around me. Seeking new subjects to explore paint as a medium for my degree show I made paintings from collages constructed from found imagery. In painting these strange and sometimes unsettling scenarios with an increasingly experimental approach to the manipulation of colour, space and composition, I strive to highlight the wondrous ability paint has to describe, suggest and invent whilst establishing an ambiguous narrative that I hope will evoke curiosity in the viewer. My portrait based work explores painter to sitter relationships. Choosing either to paint people without their knowing or people I have found on the internet that are strangers to me, my work explores the dichotomy of the public and the private by creating some strangely intimate yet distant relationships. ABIGAIL BOX |