Location: United Kingdom
I am currently engaged in a long term project based on the media,
The work conveys my personal concern for the way the media around
us manipulates and controls the people. We do not need half of what we
are influenced to buy,for the benefit of the few. I am not anti capitalist simply anti greed.
My current practise is mostly based around the idea of taking a commercial medium
such as illustration and subverting and scaling it to a size so as to make it completely
useless for its original purpose. Taking the control back to the creator and all the while
poking fun at television and the media obsessed world we live in.
The broadcast media obsessed world in which we live, provides me with my subject matter. I am currently investigating how we, as consumers, are cajoled and encouraged to buy things we really don’t need. However, it is suggested that we cannot survive without these products and services. We are manipulated and influenced to make choices that ordinarily we would consider ridiculous. My work is a vehicle of my concern for the power and lack of regulation that the multi-national companies show for us as citizens. Promotion campaigns, sales initiatives, the ‘must-haves’ and the B.O.G.O.F.’s are, at best, vestiges of an unscrupulous and capitalist global economy that will stop at nothing to sell us something. All neatly packaged and clinically delivered into our living rooms, our mutual consciousness, via the trusty television set.
The broadcast media obsessed world in which we live, provides me with my subject matter. I am currently investigating how we, as consumers, are cajoled and encouraged to buy things we really don’t need. However, it is suggested that we cannot survive without these products and services. We are manipulated and influenced to make choices that ordinarily we would consider ridiculous. My work is a vehicle of my concern for the power and lack of regulation that the multi-national companies show for us as citizens. Promotion campaigns, sales initiatives, the ‘must-haves’ and the B.O.G.O.F.’s are, at best, vestiges of an unscrupulous and capitalist global economy that will stop at nothing to sell us something. All neatly packaged and clinically delivered into our living rooms, our mutual consciousness, via the trusty television set.
Loves last lost love is part of a series of imagined worlds created using a selection of symbols and signifying icons, to create a thought planet. Focusing on the act of drawing they are a physical manifestation of my personal views. The images present all the things the world loves, protects, and by association, naturally destroys through the process of war and progress. They are my world view of the human condition.
Loves last lost love is part of a series of imagined worlds created using a selection of symbols and signifying icons, to create a thought planet. Focusing on the act of drawing they are a physical manifestation of my personal views. The images present all the things the world loves, protects, and by association, naturally destroys through the process of war and progress. They are my world view of the human condition.
Light blue touch paper is part of a series of imagined worlds created using a selection of symbols and signifying icons, to create a thought planet. Focusing on the act of drawing they are a physical manifestation of my personal views. The images present all the things the world loves, protects, and by association, naturally destroys through the process of war and progress. They are my world view of the human condition.
yellow belly is part of a series of imagined worlds created using a selection of symbols and signifying icons, to create a thought planet. Focusing on the act of drawing they are a physical manifestation of my personal views. The images present all the things the world loves, protects, and by association, naturally destroys through the process of war and progress. They are my world view of the human condition.
This is a mural produced for my friends music studio.
T.V ruined my imagination!
“they will never see it coming”
“love lat love lost”
“Last chance hotel”
“Lightblue touch paper”
“Yellow Belly”
“28 nicka notes”
“Music Leaves”
“T.V ruined my imagination!”
