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Alex Daw
28-Oct-2009Operating somewhere between the fuzzy, grey periphery of 'Street' & 'High' Art, Artist Alex Daw makes paintings, collages, drawings, installation and sculpture. Siphoning,selecting and then re-appropriating a host of apparently readable - often beautiful, though occasionally gross, base images from anywhere; the street, magazines, fashion, family photos and the internet.
Attempting to fuse the high & low , Daw uses these images as floating reference points in his work. His obsessive nature to criticise and de-construct objects is truly otherworldly, and the result is a series of compelling mementos of modern life which draws the viewer in. Mocking our cult society, satirising the clinical and surgical lengths to which celebrities go to alter their appearances, Daw’s works are refreshingly post-modern. His work is ‘'of this time’', ‘'edgy’' and referencing the ‘now’, refusing to appease to literal meaning or analysis. ‘Sex, Death, cult and celebrity’ are popular motifs in Daws’ work although there are serious undertones and lacings of his dry sense of humour.
“Being an artist is an endless soul searching critique of humanity; a day doesn’t go by where I don’t consider the reality of our collective situation”
Daw is inspired by a cross section of artists including Bacon, Warhol, Dine, Velasquez, Davinci and Bosch as well as citing as idols contemporary painters including: Hernan Bas, Marcus Harvey, Hirst & Daniel Richter.
Since graduating with a First Class honours in fine Art from The University Of Central Lancashire in 2008, Alex has had work exhibited in The National Gallery and has had work in shows throughout the north of England as well as in London, Europe & The US.
His debut solo show at Wieden and Kennedy sponsored by POP magazine was a sell-out establishing him a client base in the UK, Europe America; in addition he has had work commissioned by Diesel, Ralph Lauren, and Georgina Goodman.
Daw will feature in CUT & PASTE, 21st Century Collage, a forthcoming publication celebrating the worlds leading collage artists by Laurence King Publishing due to be released in 2011.
Attempting to fuse the high & low , Daw uses these images as floating reference points in his work. His obsessive nature to criticise and de-construct objects is truly otherworldly, and the result is a series of compelling mementos of modern life which draws the viewer in. Mocking our cult society, satirising the clinical and surgical lengths to which celebrities go to alter their appearances, Daw’s works are refreshingly post-modern. His work is ‘'of this time’', ‘'edgy’' and referencing the ‘now’, refusing to appease to literal meaning or analysis. ‘Sex, Death, cult and celebrity’ are popular motifs in Daws’ work although there are serious undertones and lacings of his dry sense of humour.
“Being an artist is an endless soul searching critique of humanity; a day doesn’t go by where I don’t consider the reality of our collective situation”
Daw is inspired by a cross section of artists including Bacon, Warhol, Dine, Velasquez, Davinci and Bosch as well as citing as idols contemporary painters including: Hernan Bas, Marcus Harvey, Hirst & Daniel Richter.
Since graduating with a First Class honours in fine Art from The University Of Central Lancashire in 2008, Alex has had work exhibited in The National Gallery and has had work in shows throughout the north of England as well as in London, Europe & The US.
His debut solo show at Wieden and Kennedy sponsored by POP magazine was a sell-out establishing him a client base in the UK, Europe America; in addition he has had work commissioned by Diesel, Ralph Lauren, and Georgina Goodman.
Daw will feature in CUT & PASTE, 21st Century Collage, a forthcoming publication celebrating the worlds leading collage artists by Laurence King Publishing due to be released in 2011.
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