Simon ATTWOOL

I enjoy temporal, discarded information both visual and textual which holds its own loaded meaning where there manifests some estrangement of the everyday object or place. I then rework this collected material to show an austere, suspicious view on what may normally seem inviting or familiar. The mutual dependence of complimentary opposites within the work correlates to the mutual dependence we feel with objects, images and theories, which exist outside ourselves.

Through the use of screen-printing as a means of layering and collage elements, I am adopting it as a visual pun on the ‘screen’ and the image production process. Having control in the reordering of these images through veils of paint and ink, I want to reconfigure the imagery, allowing the images to at first become recognizable and then to dissipate back into abstract memory.  I want to partially switch this abstract memory into a physicality within the gallery space.

I am looking at destruction as a form of creation. Damaged objects or images and how they can alter and enjoyably damage the way you read them.

This is also reflected in the process where images are altered, edited and severed from their original context, then re-presented as a manipulated visual ‘conspiracy’.

Using consumer based icons and images then re-presenting them in a discordant, suspicious way I hope will simultaneously acknowledge and make fun of the reality that we will never attain all that we think we want.