Eight small-scale paintings made in St Ives since early June. 50% from each work sold will go towards the petrol to get me back up to London and the other 50% to SFP, an organisation providing hot meals for Penzance's homeless and/or vulnerably housed, via my neighbour (and local legend) Wayne. Some elements of these assemblages come from other artist's waste, offcuts from de-installs/builds and marginalia found in or around galleries, therefore the starting bid for each piece is £11.62, my former hourly wage (pre tax deductions).
I've been thinking about the transformative 'power' of art making, which via assembly we may turn cheap materials or things into culturally/financially valuable objects, articles 'worthy' of preservation or investment. Looking to elements of chance around the alchemic collaging of techniques and everyday mediums/moments into items of purportedly otherworldly status; in this instance I employ the detritus of successful practitioners to flip the equation and lessen the worth of potentially 'precious' ingredients.
