Joseph O'Rourke
www.josephorourke.co.uk
@joeor
Statement:
I have been thinking about the development of cities and how they affect our connection, as individuals and a society, with the past. Areas such as Canary Wharf in London, formerly flooded marshland and farmland, and Spinningfields in Manchester, formerly slums, have dramatically changed into swathes of steel, glass and concrete, with little visible clues to their past. The lives of their current inhabitants markedly different to their predecessors. Traces of visible history do remain; a street name, a patch of cobbles, clay pipes, animal bones washed upon the side of the Thames. They leave me wondering about the largely forgotten lives of ordinary people that lived before us, and our own brief stints on the timeline of human history. Civilizations rise and fall, and will continue to do so. These two paintings look to the past to imagine future landscapes.
www.josephorourke.co.uk
@joeor
Statement:
I have been thinking about the development of cities and how they affect our connection, as individuals and a society, with the past. Areas such as Canary Wharf in London, formerly flooded marshland and farmland, and Spinningfields in Manchester, formerly slums, have dramatically changed into swathes of steel, glass and concrete, with little visible clues to their past. The lives of their current inhabitants markedly different to their predecessors. Traces of visible history do remain; a street name, a patch of cobbles, clay pipes, animal bones washed upon the side of the Thames. They leave me wondering about the largely forgotten lives of ordinary people that lived before us, and our own brief stints on the timeline of human history. Civilizations rise and fall, and will continue to do so. These two paintings look to the past to imagine future landscapes.
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160 x 140cm
Oil, acrylic, emulsion, spray paint, pastel, powder fillers, ink, paper, on stretched cotton sheet
2022
160 x 140cm
Oil, acrylic, emulsion, spray paint, pastel, powder fillers, ink, paper, on stretched cotton sheet
2022