Joe RobertsBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: London
University of Brighton
I create paintings from motifs found within architecture and engineering, influenced by ideas of weight, ascension, stability and renewal. These works play on the relationship between object and image, illusion and reality, commanding physical as well as pictorial space.
I use materials synonymous with construction to create allusions to everyday structures, yet their purpose is transformed from functionality to aesthetics. These materials are removed from their original context and transformed into art objects to highlight their character and property back within the environment.
The work becomes both a physical structure and a homage to construction itself.
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Work of art I would like to makeMy work is reliant on a lengthy physical process and an engagement with substance. Through this working method I aim to build up a personal history within the object, leaving traces of process and gesture. The inclusion of salvaged material from construction sites gives the work a history that predates its current form. Relics of previous structures become totems to their former glory.
Being part of the New Sensations would give me both the time and facilities to develop the work. It would allow for the use of more adventurous industrial processes and further experimentation with recycled materials.
By combining these large-scale works with photographs of selected urban structures, a relationship is established between signifier and signified.
The images would serve to both celebrate and document these structures, as well as to question the perceived authority of the work accompanying. Although physically undermined within the gallery, the photographs represent both more dominant and functional construction, challenging the viewer to question their own relationship to both the work, and the world outside.
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My Artworks (6)
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