The Multi Sensory Rubber Memory Theatre
2011
Anthony works in A.S.C. Studios , Erlang House on Blackfriars Road, St George’s Circus, London.
He will participate in Open Studios 11 which is a month long series of open studios, workshops, events and performances across 11 A.S.C. buildings in South and East London throughout November.
Anthony will be giving a slide show of 20 images as part of the 20 x 20 show which is a quick fire talk by a group of artists sharing their inspiration and ideas. This is based on the Pecha Kucha idea of twenty images to twenty seconds of talk for each. This will take place on the Open Studios weekend in Blackfriars Road on Fri 26th of Nov.
To view Anthony’s twenty images and hear his talk online visit the A.S.C. website and click Pecha Kucha Event at Erlang House.
Painted Frames of Rubber Memory
These paintings are works of memory. They are paintings that frame a moment of the changed malleable memory. The culture of preserving memory is all around us, from the photograph on the mantelpiece to the documentary, to You Tube and the written word. All the recorded memories that we have, be it in whatever form they are set, are not always accurate to how we remember them. Two friends sit and reminisce about a past event, one will remember different elements to the other or both will remember the same thing but differently. Even video footage that is shown to us years later can contradict how we remember the event.
The memory is malleable or rubber, it bends and distorts with time.
Alienation from the memory:
We are always distanced, alienated and removed from the real event. As time passes we become more removed. There are alienating barriers of time, the framed photograph or the laptop frame will always act as a barrier and separate us from our memories. These are physical equivalents of time barriers like that of distance and the rubber memory.
In my paintings, there exists the hint of memory, memories that have been removed, alienated from us. Visual borders, frames and barriers separate me, the viewer from the distorted memory inside. These works reference and play out a type of culture of memory depiction, of how our documentation or recording of memory differs from the real event. These paintings exploit this leap in truth. They thrive and feed off the possibilities that this throws up. These paintings reference the idea of creativity itself, which springs from memory – which then becomes a distorted and rubber memory.
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