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Work Type:painting, photography
Date of work:1995
Materials:medium: oil paint, c-type photo

support: canvas

Measurements:height: 116 cm

width: 80.5 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:group portrait, family
Technique:painting, photography
Description:
‘I take photographs, colour copy them onto canvas or have a c-type print canvas mounted and then I paint the same picture over itself. The original image is obliterated. In an unconventional way this method results in a form of minimalism, contemplative, yet reticent.’
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Source:Artist’s statement. New Contemporaries 1996 submission form
Date of source:January 1996