mr wallace's Page

Relationship status

single

College / University

Kent Institute of Art and Design

Program

BA Fine Art

Graduation

July 1, 2005

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Video

I am...

a UK based artist whose practice involves outcomes in sculpture, drawing, photography, video and sound. I've exhibited work in the UK, Germany and Japan.

About my artwork

7. Body, object, space.
Absurd Existential isolation, combined with a romantic longing, leads to a fetishisation of objects and surfaces, where minimal forms reveal a sensual and tactile materiality.

8. The fetishisation here is the repetition of a frozen moment.
A hotel room, flag, newspapers on the rear of a wardrobe, waiting, the gap between two pillows, a box, or the image of an icon.
Intimate. Contained. Reflection. Deviation.

5. Communication.
The repetition of stripes and hoops. Lines with gaps between them.
The gap is powerful, a tension between the possible and the impossible.
Potential for communication. Side by side, but never truly connecting.

Artists I like

Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Miroslav Balka, Ian Kier, Claire Barclay

Interests

drawing, black shiny things, cardboard, hotel rooms, hoops, repetition, learning japanese, bass guitar, travel, dachshunds, football (Liverpool FC), okonomiyaki, kimchi

film:
Fallen Angels, Sonatine, Rumblefish, Lost in Translation, Oldboy, Nightmare Before Christmas, Wings of Desire, A Tale of Two Sisters, Goodfellas, Onibaba, In the Mood for Love, Blade Runner, Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, Fargo, Masque of the Red Death, Way of the Dragon, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, What Time is it There?, Woman of the Dunes, Crash (Cronenberg), Blue Velvet, Return to the 36th Chamber, Edward Scissorhands, Eraserhead, Tampopo, Faust, Spirited Away, The Conversation, Raise the Red Lantern, Thin Red Line, Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence

music:
Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, P J Harvey, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jihen, Beethoven, Ministry, Kyuss, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jeff Buckley, Soundgarden, Grinderman, Portishead, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, Pulp, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Chara, Les Claypool, Primus, Franz Ferdinand, Voi Vod, System of a Down, Fishbone, Sparklehorse

television:
Spaced, Jam, Big Train, Flight of the Conchords, Trapdoor, Monkey, Family Guy, The Water Margin, Simpsons, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Twin Peaks, The Mighty Boosh

Centre of the artworld:

New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere, another city