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Work Type:painting
Date of work:2002
Materials:medium: enamel paint

support: canvas
notes: added metal components

Measurements:
notes: dimensions variable

Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:painting
Description:
Selectors’ comments: ‘What are they? Not sculptures, not paintings, nor murals, but then not installations…Handrails for the infirm that lose their function, then reappear as ornaments in a theatrical display of ground-leaving (like the birds and their canvases), colour-coded like the witch-staffs of primitivised suburbans; or decorated to make them more than simply functional, ornate, invested with a different register of value.’
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Source:Selectors’ comments: J.J. Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren. “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003”, exhibition catalogue, Coventry, 2003.
Date of source:2003
Description:
Artist Statement: ‘(…) My work tends to operate best in the middle origins between a familiarity with the functional origins of found objects and my own abstract invention/fictions’
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Source:Artist Statement: New Contemporaries 2003 submission form
Date of source:January 2003