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Medium: Gloss on Board
Dimensions (H/W/D): 120 by 80 by 3 cm.
Year made: 2005
Framed: Unframed
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It is often difficult to identify the starting point of a project. The flower series began in 2001. For a number of years I painted fuchsias, or more precisely, made paintings of shapes derived from photographs of fuchsias...
My Gran’s garden was adorned by several fuchsia plants. She used to refer to them as ‘ballerinas’, this memory was recalled when visiting Susan Hiller’s ‘From the Freud Museum‘ piece at the Tate Modern, which had among the plethora of intriguing texts, photographs and objects a slide wallet containing thirty dried and flattened fuchsias. Shortly after the visit I found a book on fuchsias in a charity shop from which the source images are mined.
It could be said there is a suggestion of nostalgia inherent in this type of ‘re-collection’, embarking on this project however I wanted to make work that felt contemporary; as such oil paint and canvas were eschewed for board and I employed flat household gloss paint.
Additional books were collected from further visits to charity shops; from which this series of hybrids was made (they were either lilies or orchids, I can’t quite remember).
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Andy Lawson
Andy Lawson has exhibited extensively in London and the southwest. He undertook a residency at the Serpentine Gallery in 2006 as part of ‘Hearing Voices, Seeing Things’ in conjunction with the LCCA. His first solo show, ‘PhicoiBia I’, a large scale site specific installation took place in June 2008 at St Pauls Art Space in Bow; the central thread of which focussed on the display of a vast collection of objects. Other projects include photographic documentations of...
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