Naive John - post modern absurdism - paintings - drawings

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Alarm Call - number 1 on exhibition in Manchester.

'Alarm Call - number 1' will be on show at Bankley Studio & Gallery in Manchester http://www.bankley.org.uk/

on the following weekend dates; 17-18th, 24-25th September and 1-2nd October 11-5pm.

There is a preview on Friday 16th September 6-9pm.

University of London video.

Here is a link to the short talk I recently gave at the University of London.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/business/about-us/bullying/series-launch/john

Vulnerable Selves, Disciplining Others: New approaches to bullying and conflict at work

On May 18th I will be giving a short talk at the University of London about my work The Other. This will be the opening event of a larger programme of symposia whose theme is bullying in the workplace. My painting will on display in the University for the opening seminar.

Click on the link below to book a place.

Alarm Call no.1

New Work.

The first in a series of three and measuring 32 x 40 inches. This image references high/low culture, advertising, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Ub Iwerks, portraiture and Dutch vanitas still lives. The whole thing is skewed through an absurdity filter and whilst the new palette is technicolour the humour is still black!

My Dada is Bigger than your Dada. Part two.

The id.

I want the elements in this painting to refer to the kind of cartoon imagery that was produced in the studios of animation pioneers like Max Fleischer and Tex Avery. However my 'monster from the id' has been endowed with very adult penile horns - attributes perhaps more in keeping with a work by the Chapman Brothers than Walt Disney.

My Dada is bigger than your Dada. Part one.

I've been working on some drawings for a new painting; My Dada is Bigger than your Dada. Everything is at the early stage and may yet end up in the virtual trash can.

The basic concept is this: our hero - the brilliant fool - is undergoing a near death experience somewhere in a back yard near you. Suffering from hypoxia, he is transported - or not - to the heavens where he is given a bird's eye view from which to search for God and meaning in the Universe. On his left and right side reside his id and super-ego respectively.

The colour study below gives some indication as to the outcome of his search.