SHELF HELP

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This is a constantly evolving collection of small artworks displayed on a shelving unit. Compositions are continually rearranged to accommodate the inclusion of new pieces, each developed as a response to a given object or found image, combined to create new hybrid forms. 

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Familiar images appropriated from popular culture and the history of art are juxtaposed with the discarded objects of everyday life, re-contextualising the commonplace and allowing unexpected, complex and sometimes humorous meanings to arise.

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The work aims to bring the heightened quality of art-making to the so-called ordinary, and to blur the distinction between domestic and gallery space.

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Renowned artists represented here in this 'mini-gallery' include (L to R starting at the top) Duccio di Buoninsegna, Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Banksy.

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The paintings of both Warhol and Hockney are derived from photographs of each of them posing for the camera, using one of their own paintings as a backdrop. These two pieces form the beginning of a new series depicting famous artists posing with their work. Currently In progress is my painting of Sir Peter Blake standing on his Everybody Razzle Dazzle ferry completed in 2015. 

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