You asked

Ray Liebersmilch
You asked. 2012
Plastic, vinyl lettering, emulsion, shutter board
45cms x 60cms
Private collection


This work's obvious sensibility to perception, body and environment provides the dominant emotion. The basic representation of experience incorporating analogous signs and symbols concentrates the signal-like meaning, notably absent in other formats. Broadening the concept of the analysis of meaning from an investigative to a descriptive phase, the work repossesses the sense of a virtual urban area; a walkthrough installation.

Recess

Pat Reedy
Recess, 2012
Steel box with shutter board surround
160 cms x 190 cms,
Private collection

Since the early 1990s the artist has been displaying a succession of street interventions in hyper-real environments. Over the courseof the intervention the work subtly take up its position, moving very little and inhabiting the space like a living picture. Each viewing is unique often embodying a cinematic or filmic quality dependent on the play of light and background environmental noise and questioning the meaning of media, environment and the self.

Di-solve two

George Mallick
Di-solve two. 2012
Masonry and shutter board
100 cms x 100 cms
Private collection


In portraying this work the artist consciously renounces elaborate or perfectionist techniques in favour of an assemblage of related materials often foreign to established artistic traditions. The theme tackled is the heroism of the “everyday” and the piece ironically questions our attitude to stylistic features in the market driven art world. The work often assimilates new materials reflecting the social and cultural framing of its location.

Pulsar

Eugene Esther
Pulsar, 2012
Shutter board, emulsion
110 cms x 110 cms
Private collection

This work functionally separates the sentimental nostalgia of more traditional painting, creating two opposing forms, whose distance almost dissolves when observed. The sensitive tonality of the poetic fiction presented by this rendering is marginalised. Easily mistaken for more routine forms, these are in reality alluding to a higher objective. Removing the emotion which is often at the core of the work, it's easy for forget the distinction between art and the world it reflects.
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