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In 'Orchard Park' by Andy
Lock, fragments of discarded furniture, empty picture frames and
carpets, even the fall of light, take on forms which are at once
melancholy and disquieting. The singular aesthetic of this work
is the result of a process whereby photographic images are projected
onto painted, phosphorescent surfaces, creating an unfixed and
transient after-image. This fading, luminous after-image is then
re-photographed to produce the scenes depicted. These strange aerie
interiors are deserted council flats in limbo awaiting destruction.
'Suburban Exposures' by Richard Page explores
the psychological spaces on the edge of suburbia. The images reflect
an uncanny quality in which the familiar territory of the domestic
landscape becomes unfamiliar. Withholding specific narratives,
but using a visual rhetoric from cinema, myth, fairy-tale and horror,
these images set a stage for disconcerting psychological dramas
in which the viewer becomes implicated.
Richard Page and Andy Lock graduated from Westminster School of
Art in 2003. They have both exhibited widely in the UK.
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