BOURNE FINE ART
UNTIL JANUARY 14
Jock McFadyen: ‘Fragments of Scotland’
Corran Sands, Jura, 2011, oil on plywood, 55 x 90cm
Commanding the attention of the audience and challenging notions of genre and common conceptions of social practice, Jock McFadyen’s work makes anything but a diminutive statement.
Depicting eyesores as though they were architectural gems, immortalising the marginalised and disregarded on canvas, the Scottish artist inescapably represents society’s eschewed, bringing the background to the fore and celebrating elements of urban life that we tend not to take into account.
Educated at Chelsea School of Art, McFadyen has had over 40 solo exhibitions and his work is held in almost as many public collections both in Britain and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Scottish Arts Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the British Museum.
McFadyen’s works are searing visions of the physical and social decay of the urban. Graffitti, broken windows, heavy skies and isolation characterise his paintings to portray the banal in an almost unnerving manner.
A self-proclaimed realist, seeking inspiration from the likes of Turner, Sickert and Lowry, the artist fuses architecture, history and figurative painting to produce a hard-hitting collection of work addressing inexorable realities of our time.
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