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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions 1980 First Picture
show - Sainsbury's Art Centre,
Norwich
1982 South Bank show - South
London Art Gallery, Coracle
and Morley College Gallery -
Festival of artists working in
South London.
1983 Paintings - Minories
gallery, Colchester
1983 Four English artists -
Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch,
Holland with shelagh cluett,
kay mclauren, and tony ...
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Artist Statement for Amrit Row
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Since Autumn 2002, I changed the way the images are made so that the centre of the image in the viewfinder of the camera is not edited when printing. This is important as the line of vision remains through the process of getting the camera's virtual digital information to the print via the computer screen. The new work from 2004 is getting closer to what I want from the 'photographic' print. Importantly, I'm trying to lose the photoness or windowness of the image in favour of graphicness. The meanings associated with the work are somewhat the same as the highly edited work previously shown here, in that I'm still trying to show the image in relation to absolute black whether it's the obscured centre or the edge. The black and white work goes someway to bridge the gap between the conte black of my old drawings and the new possibility of realising an absolute theoretical digital black in the prints. I suppose I'm still struggling with the process of representing what it's like to see, even through a piece of filtering technology like a camera. I have serious philosophical problems with the camera being used as an agent to create a 'window on the world'; the shiny, clear, sharp images we're all used to in photographic prints. It has become a bit of a dogma and a very tedious convention to pretend the photo has no objectness. So strong is this convention that when photos are printed are printed on, say, hand made paper, we tend to think the photos are trying to be something else, a 'drawing' or 'painting'. The new black and white work also presents the images as circular fields of vision embedded in black and not rectangular views edited by the camera and the edge of the paper. The work is a process of getting back to the nitty gritty of photography from a painters point of view and getting away from the dreary slickness that is modern photographic practice". The new work shown here(2006-7)is now using human objects and activities in relation to that same theoretical blackness.
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