Artist statement / Contact:
‘‘I make paintings that misbehave. That disrupt the picture plane, using found materials. The surfaces of my paintings remain in a state of flux, layering surfaces. Fragments of drawings, graffiti, wall patinas, torn images and found materials become absorbed into the work. I make paintings that misbehave, disrupting the picture plane through found materials, collage and unstable surfaces. My practice sits between the disruptive legacy of Dada, particularly Kurt Schwitters, and the Zen philosophy of D.T. Suzuki, Zenga and Okiyo-e, and how contemporary artists use strategies of spontaneity in their work. My paintings emerge through collisions of order and chaos, where beauty, destruction and chance coexist. Working from my studio overlooking Solsbury Hill in Bath, I develop multiple paintings and works on paper simultaneously, allowing time, entropy, uncertainty and doubt play their part in the painting process, leaving paintings that feel unsettled but alive and still reconstructing themselves beyond the studio. Disruption isn’t the subject, it’s the method.’’
David Moxon
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Background information:
Masters, Art & Ideology in Europe in the 20th Century - Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton, UK.
(Thesis: ‘Strategies for Painting - An investigation into the emergence of Zen Buddhism in New York after World War II and its subsequent significance on the paintings of Robert Motherwell.’)
PGCE (FE) - University of Greenwich, London, UK.
BA(Hons) Fine Art - University of East London, UK. (Exchange: Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA)
Fine Art Lecturer: BA Programmes: University of the Creative Arts, (Farnham), Bath Spa University, University of Bath
Foundation Dip. Art & Design Lecturer: Berkshire College of Art & Design, Stroud College, Bath College.
EDEXCEL and OCR Moderation.
Public Programme Curator:
Artbar ‘Artists Talks’ at The Raven: https://artbarbath.wordpress.com/
The Painting Space: https://thepaintingspace.blogspot.com/2010/11/kurt-schwitters-still-crazy-after-all.html,
Art House-Blast FM: https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm
Bath Arts Festival-’Pavilion of Painting’: https://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/pavilion
and numerous artists led initiatives. See ‘Exhibitions’.
