133. JUSTIN
MORTIMER
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Lake, 2003, 198x244cm;
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Untitled, photo collage
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HMQ, Commissioned by the Royal Society for the Arts,
1997, oil on canvas
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1970 in England
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London
Studies:
1988-92
Slade School of Art, London
Themes and
style:
His paintings consistently invite us
to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and
horror, and between figuration and abstraction. While the imagery is almost
exclusively pitiless, the texturing of the paint, the play between light and
shade and the passages that lead from photo-realist definition to near-abstract
formlessness are so sensitively handled as to make the work at least partially
redemptive as well as to indicate a key philosophical dimension: the oblique
relationship between evidence and interpretation
Techniques:
His work
is developed in oil paintings and collage
Exhibitions
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Parafin
In
his own words:
“I’m
very interested in painting violence without painting violence – the banality
of everyday objects is something I find very moving. It’s often down to the
shoe or the telephone … and the everyday objects of a violent person”.
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more Information: