In this exhibition I presented a body of work pertaining to my 'collage-novel'. This expanded fiction (adapting the form associated with Max Ernst’s lithographic works of the mid-1930s) takes the form of a series of mixed-media works on paper and canvas. Deploying both linguistic and pictorial elements (at varying levels of abstraction) the work utilises forms and styles of drawing and fabrication influenced by history painting, theatre design, fashion illustration and synthetic-cubist collage. This body of work has been particularly inspired by my investigation of ‘mid-century modern’ illustration and applied arts. The exhibition is part of a larger series of paintings and writings which explore the equivalence of collage (as a physical -and now increasingly virtual medium) to anachronism (a form of temporal and ideological displacement of images) and visual-ekphrasis (a type of referencing-system through which the artwork cites or emulates another object or aesthetic genre by ‘describing’ it).

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