Alan Rees-Baynes
www.alanreesbaynes.co.uk
@alanreesb
Statement:
When I first saw the title for this year’s Beep show, it felt relevant to a lot of my work over the past twenty years. I have continued to explore the names of household paint and the way in which their names can allure the customer into purchasing an artificial substance with a natural relating name. These names continue to seduce with waterfalls, forests, and deserts, but with the increase pressure about these environments they describe perishing, and suffering, we still purchase a paint that makes us think about a forest long enough to put it on our lounge walls.
Polar Flame instantly made me visualise the majestic Polar Bears struggling to survive whilst their landscape is melting. The subheading (Ice will tear us apart.) is not to mock their harrowing existence, whilst referring to a classic Joy Division track, but highlight although everything has changed, nothing has changed.
www.alanreesbaynes.co.uk
@alanreesb
Statement:
When I first saw the title for this year’s Beep show, it felt relevant to a lot of my work over the past twenty years. I have continued to explore the names of household paint and the way in which their names can allure the customer into purchasing an artificial substance with a natural relating name. These names continue to seduce with waterfalls, forests, and deserts, but with the increase pressure about these environments they describe perishing, and suffering, we still purchase a paint that makes us think about a forest long enough to put it on our lounge walls.
Polar Flame instantly made me visualise the majestic Polar Bears struggling to survive whilst their landscape is melting. The subheading (Ice will tear us apart.) is not to mock their harrowing existence, whilst referring to a classic Joy Division track, but highlight although everything has changed, nothing has changed.
Polar Flame 1 (Ice will tear us apart)