Displacement
ANCA Gallery 22 October – 2 November 2008:
Displacement is an exhibition which aims to highlight the bizarre, the beautiful and the fragile aspects of the oceans. It operates as a vast Wunderkammer or curiosity cabinet and emphasises the importance of the oceans both in an aesthetic and intellectual sense, and to remind us that we belong to a vast, living planet that is incredibly beautiful, terribly fragile, and at times quite bizarre.
Through paintings of Still life, Fish Portraits, Sponges and Shells, I have endeavored to use my status as artist to act not only as a privileged interpreter of nature but as an inventor. To achieve this many of the works have been distorted and exaggerated to emphasize the sometimes quirky nature of the world beneath the sea. The works aim to excite curiosity to the diversity of our oceans and the life therein and to enlist help in their protection.
Fish portraits
Ten fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
80 x 120cm
Ray
(2008)
oil on plywood
60 x 59.5cm
Deep Sea fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5
x 39cm
Specimen fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5 x 39cm
Brown Box fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Yellow Butterfly fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Pig Face fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Blue Box fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5 x 39.3cm
Long nose fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5 x 39cm
Dragon fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Cow fish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Sunfish
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Naked Sea Butterfly
(2008)
oil on plywood
29 x 39cm
Glowing Sucker Octopus
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5 x 20cm
Octopus Portrait
(2008)
oil on plywood
29.5 x 20cm
Sponges
Sponge #1
(2008)
oil on plywood
80 x 39.5cm
Sponge #2
(2008)
oil on plywood
80 x 39.5cm
Sponge #3
(2008)
oil on plywood
80 x 39.5cm
Sponge #4
(2008)
oil on plywood
59.5 x 20cm
Sponge #5
(2008)
oil on canvas
40.5 x 41cm
Still Life
Shell collection #1
(2008)
oil on canvas
50 x 50cm
Shell collection #2
(2008)
oil on canvas
50 x 50cm