News from Nowhere 2 (2004)

Digital Lambda prints from large format (5x4) photographic transparencies.

Photographs of fictional model planets built in the studio. The models were made from polystyrene, filler and paint.  Although at low resolution the images appeared convincing, the large scale of the photographic prints allowed the traces of artifice to be discerned by the viewer when exhibited.

First exhibited at EAST International 2004,  (selected by Gerd Harry Lybke and Neo Rauch) at the Norwich Gallery in July 2004, alongside two photographs from my Another Country series (see Daniella Johnson: East International 2004 Flash Art Issue 238 October 2004).

Subsequently at John Timberlake: New Work at One Twenty Gallery, Ghent, and in the group show Afterwards curated by Sharon Kivland, at the Mead Gallery, Coventry, in 2009.

Catalogue text:

East International 2004 (text on John Timberlake by Michael Corris) Norwich Gallery (ISBN 1 872482 68 6 )

News from Nowhere sequence of exhibition prints, installed at Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK, 2009

Russian Painting 2 (2004), detail

Acrylic and spray paint on paper, framed with truncated captions.

A sequence of ‘artist’s impressions’ executed in a style reminiscent of astronomical illustrations pre-dating the age of space flight. My interest here was less focused on nostalgia per se than the extent to which a painting once held to be an accurate representation of something can gradually lose its credibility. The captions were in Russian, with the omission of specific data marked by elisions.

First shown at One Twenty Gallery, Ghent.

Subsequently at Frou Frou Foxes in Mid-Summer Fires, Colony Gallery, Birmingham (curated by Mona Casey and Paul McAree); Curious Nature, curated by Eliza Gluckman and Lucy Day, at Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall.

Russian Painting 3 (2004), detail

Acrylic and spray paint on paper, framed with truncated captions.

A sequence of ‘artist’s impressions’ executed in a style reminiscent of astronomical illustrations pre-dating the age of space flight. My interest here was less focused on nostalgia per se than the extent to which a painting once held to be an accurate representation of something can gradually lose its credibility. The captions were in Russian, with the omission of specific data marked by elisions.

First shown at One Twenty Gallery, Ghent.

Subsequently at Frou Frou Foxes in Mid-Summer Fires, Colony Gallery, Birmingham (curated by Mona Casey and Paul McAree); Curious Nature, curated by Eliza Gluckman and Lucy Day, at Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall.

Russian Paintings, installed as part of Curious Nature, curated by Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman, Newlyn Art Gallery, 2008

Acrylic and spray paint on paper, framed with truncated captions.