The (Takashi Murakami- invented) icon Mr DOB grins playfully at the viewer from the canvas in a Sonic- the- Hedgehog blue. Mr DOB is a slick invented fantasy in the form of a pleasure pill, designed to amuse, tickle and entertain. Seemingly innocuous, it is...
This work is carried by the powerful, emphatic brushstrokes of black ink on paper, unrestrained and expressive. The kanji characters spell the name of Kanzan (Hansan in Chinese), a mythologized figure in the canon of Chinese Buddhist tradition. The work is the barest of statements,...
An imitative tribute to Henri Rousseau’s Myself: Portrait Landscape, the artist has embellished the painting with heavy and familiar references, making it his own. The little girl in the centre of the painting eyes the viewer with an unflinching gaze, and is a representative portrait...
The pixelated appearance of this work is as though a magnifying glass has been placed in front of it. The scene depicted is a pleasing portrait of familial relationship. Captured in time, there is a sense of nostalgia, of the artist looking back fondly, heightened...
Towering plastic baskets in garish hues of colour hung from the ceiling, taking on the scale of an expensive artwork commissioned especially for the building. Yet the material used subverts the feeling of grand occasion, being cheap, disposable plastic- more at home instead in a...
This work was presented as a framed newspaper article, beckoning viewers to approach the work and ‘read the news’. Presenting the artist’s tongue-in-cheek point of view, the work is literally ‘fake news’, a comic-like pastiche of thought and thinking, utilising and (at the same time)...