 My art practice may best described as eclectic. I do not subscribe to the tenet that pursuing just one particular route of development is the only means of endeavour. There exist many commonalities, shared perspectives and adaptable aesthetic and theoretical values applicable to most aspects of art production. I regard it as a challenge to work within a variety of subjects, approaches and media whilst maintaining a consistency and a workable systematic and stylistic formula.
Gerhardt Richter wrote that successful production of art is a series of not yets and a yes at the end . A wonderfully simple description of a viable artistic process.
Art, a strange term which encompasses so much as to be arbitrary, now has become virtually anything, just so long as any authority declares it to be so. I could argue that the production of a traditional canvas, using paint, making no attempt to shock, outrage or titillate, is the new avant-garde, the next shock. But I won’t. Art in all its various forms has become so diverse, so pluralistic as to be virtually indefinable.
Gravitas and Gravity Series
Paintings completed within the last three years. All of these paintings are carried out with commercial gloss paints. The consistency and "pourability" of such paint rendered it the only medium suitable for the subject and content of these works. I have found that French paint manufacturers produce the best range of colours, for me at least. Trips across the Channel have a sense of purpose! These pieces explore behaviour and consequence. Paint may be seen as a metaphor for some human traits, be they well mannered, wayward, cooperative, dysfunctional, discordant, harmonious, complementary, aggressive, biddable or demanding. This can be perceived as the message of and within these works, or you can simply enjoy them for the visual and playful surprises and memory jogs that the physical and subliminal content may contain.
Mick Rafferty, has exhibited in 25 locations in the UK, half of these One Man Shows, at locations including University of Warwick, Coventry University, Upton House; Poole, Leamington Spa, Earlsdon, Huntingdon, Bristol, Banbury, Hoxton; London and Varenna; Italy
Education: 1972 Dip.A.D. Canterbury College of Art: 1990 Post Graduate Certificate of Education: 1998 Masters Degree in Fine Art, Coventry University.
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Size: 28.00" x 20.00"
Price: £250.00
