| The bastardized stealth boomerang is not be defined
by its cloak and mask of mediocrity, for satire is a paranoid genre
of fiction, the
building blocks for which may be as engaging in their construction
as these occasionally delicate, more often, intense and concentrated
visual forms. Here, a vernacular poker-face, the faux British-dogmatist
façade of Chris Morris, is married to the muted rage of the
Victorian parlour subversive whose audacious kingdoms of fantasized
omnipotence are almost swallowed but still dimly visible, compacted
and strangulated within a “Brontë Truck.” Elsewhere
the brush-marks
turn loose and monochromatic around another scabrous English
character, that of a jaded, defunct Vorticist monster, shaking
a bellicose fist at the sky.
— Laurence Figgis
Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Andrew Mummery,
London; 2002: School of Art residency, Glasgow; 2001: The Project
Room, Glasgow.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: East International,
Norwich Gallery; Haunted Swing, Collective, Edinburgh; 2002: Hamstead
Achieved, K Jacksons, Edinburgh; Presence: New Art in Scotland,
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh; 2001: Young Young Dragons, Proto Academy,
Edinburgh; Republic of Leather (People’s), Generator, Dundee;
2000: Louder than Love, De Zeup Cultural Institute, Brussels; Medium-Sized
Objects,
One in the Other, London. |