Paul Bramley
www.paulbramley.co.uk
@bramley_paul
Statement:
Two zen monks meet in the road. In the customary mode of zen combat, the first asks, 'where are you brother?'
'I'm in the place where nothing ever changes.'
'But I thought everything was always changing?'
'Yes, that never changes either.'
Paul Bramley is an artist whose work aligns itself in the liminal space between disciplines, amalgamating painting with a wide array of other media. His work is a socio – political discourse informed by a longstanding fascination with displacement, permeation and syntheses.
His work is medium unspecific, working with what comes to hand: discarded remnants of trades, the orts of crafts, the everyday. This eclectic approach to materiality encapsulates the notion of wayfaring, following the materials rather than travelling a fixed path from A to B. The areas where territories shift and merge, or deterritorialize and reterritorialize are the areas of great interest, questioning formerly established identities and boundaries.
These two works are based upon the idea of horizontalism and field theory where image upon surface is not viewed as more important than the apparatus of a paintings appearance. All the players that make up the painted objected are viewed with equal importance, they all play a vital part in making up the totality of the field. By painting upon the bars, the very things that give a painting structure become responsible for being surface and image.
www.paulbramley.co.uk
@bramley_paul
Statement:
Two zen monks meet in the road. In the customary mode of zen combat, the first asks, 'where are you brother?'
'I'm in the place where nothing ever changes.'
'But I thought everything was always changing?'
'Yes, that never changes either.'
Paul Bramley is an artist whose work aligns itself in the liminal space between disciplines, amalgamating painting with a wide array of other media. His work is a socio – political discourse informed by a longstanding fascination with displacement, permeation and syntheses.
His work is medium unspecific, working with what comes to hand: discarded remnants of trades, the orts of crafts, the everyday. This eclectic approach to materiality encapsulates the notion of wayfaring, following the materials rather than travelling a fixed path from A to B. The areas where territories shift and merge, or deterritorialize and reterritorialize are the areas of great interest, questioning formerly established identities and boundaries.
These two works are based upon the idea of horizontalism and field theory where image upon surface is not viewed as more important than the apparatus of a paintings appearance. All the players that make up the painted objected are viewed with equal importance, they all play a vital part in making up the totality of the field. By painting upon the bars, the very things that give a painting structure become responsible for being surface and image.
This Farming Life
22.5 x 18.5cm Acrylic on stretcher bars 2022 |
Horizontalist Study
24 x 19cm Acrylic on stretcher bars 2022 |