Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, ICA, London, 26 November 2014 – 25 January 2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Newlyn, 21st March – 30th May 2015
Woking, The Lightbox, Not all contemporary art is rubbish! The Ingram Collection, 2 February – 10 April 2016
The artist says “Mismatched Couple is a very important work for me and my practice. It was the outcome of long deliberation and process, when I was searching for a new and valid expression of the figure in painting, which was nevertheless openly indebted to its predecessors. The individual colours, forms and textures of parts of the painting are all intended to induce a feeling of nostalgia in the viewer, for a lost age when the importance or meaning of a work of art was emphatically not linked to technological advances; when the most radical artworks in the early 20th century were a rejection of Western society, technological innovation, and the resultant binding of freedoms. However, in Mismatched Couple (and a hint is in the title), these individual elements are cruelly welded to each other to create faceted and entangled monsters. Bloated and neutered they resemble the patchworked gigantism of the global art world whose foundations are built on those spirit-loving, opinionated pioneers of early Modernism.”
