Film, Fashion, Theater, and Literature. Prague, Barcelona, London, Glasgow, San Sebastian, Estepona, and Cardiff. These last 12 months or so have held a lot for me. The new exhibition is based around the books I've read, the films and shows I've seen, the exhibitions I've walked thru, the music I've heard, the people I've met and the obsession I felt. So much has all this combined, that my concepts of my work have altered. I feel bound to seek justification, and a criteria in the idea of service to art as my life. Experiencing modern exhibitions, e.g. The London Royal Academy's Annual and Tracy Emin at The Cube, I see in art today that proportion and disproportion hold similar, if not identical attributes to the modern composition. Even when the word composition seems old fashioned. There resembles an insinuation that the contributions known within the structure of a picture have been left aside in more recent 2-dimensional works. I recently visited an exhibition by Brian Harte in the Origin Gallery, Dublin, where his paintings and drawings held both the traditional compositions (mainly in the drawings) and what might be called the anti-structure or edifice (mainly in the larger paintings). For my own works I'm looking at diverting from traditional composition and pictorial frameworks, but still contain geometrical formations. Statement from November 2005 Exhibition
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