Andrew McFadyen
(37 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Norwich)
Norwich School of Art & Design
I am a BA (Hons) Fine Art (1.0) graduate from Norwich School of Art and Design.
I make graphite-on-paper rubbings of street surfaces that have not yet been erased by urban gentrification, celebrating what is frequently considered ugly and mundane, but are in fact beautiful and unique indicators of our modern existence.
On hands and knees and in public for hours at a time, I rub graphite onto thin paper, slowly advancin ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
I want to continue to make facsimiles of the transforming landscape, to archive what modernity makes inevitable. New work brings new opportunity to explore and record unique places and moments in time. Making street rubbings always causes a sensation; I make my work in public, under the gaze of the passer-by. Often the work causes people to notice what they see everyday, but as if for the first time. This process transforms the mundane and familiar into the extraordinary and fantastic. It is exciting to instigate this reaction in others and I enjoy bringing reality to people’s attention in this way. I want to celebrate the configurations of marks that meander like drawings across the surfaces of city streets before they are replaced by the neat and precise repetitions of sterile stone slabs and brick paving promised by urban gentrification. Bland aesthetics contribute to the steady rise of the hyper-real. The landscape is transforming; public streets resemble the private spaces of sterile shopping centres and retail theme parks. As our landscape erodes, so too does our culture. Homogenisation brings diminishment.
I want to make work not as a protest, but as a recording of a lost time and place, as a metaphor for the passage of time and the transience of the moment. In celebrating the obsolete and the mundane I celebrate reality. Life is imperfect, etched and scarred by requirement and experience, diminishing with every passing moment. As mundane and flawed as it can seem, real life is beautiful.
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My Artworks (6)
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