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Phylum: Fabriles |
Phylum: Fabriles |
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'All we, like sheep...' |
Prelude |
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| Patrick Semple was born in Hertfordshire in 1962 and brought up in Kent. He studied at Medway and at Exeter College of Art and Design, moved to a studio in East
London in 1984. Alongside his art practice he has worked as a designer in both the publishing and advertising worlds. Between 1996 and 2002 he won many awards as a Creative Director in the New Media industry. In 2003 he moved to a barn in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to make art full-time. He has shown work in both Scotland and London and now lives and works by Deptford Creek. "A frame on an object, whether as a glass case or a gallery, is both a means of separation and a declaration of intent to examine. And, as with scientific examination at the particle level, the act of looking itself changes the object looked at. If one takes an ordinary 'something', a kettle for example, and removes it from its ordinary context into another, the gallery, it becomes in a sense Nothing. Until under examination it becames the recipient of the 'understandings' that are applied to it by the examiner. Age, abandonment, decrepitude are expressions of separation as well as exposures of intimacy. A derelict house, a 'Miss Havisham house' or crumbling splendour are often more eloquent that the splendour in its prime; an ancient face with its lines and creases may tell us more about its occupier than air-brushed perfection. As we hurtle slowly towards the event-horizon of our culture in ever more self-referential spirals, I find myself, here at the edge of the world, picking through the scraps, rummaging through the debris, trying to piece together a purpose from the fragments. History is not in matter but in the mind". |
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Phylum: Fabriles |
Phylum: Fabriles |
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'All we, like sheep...' |
Prelude |
