'Batch' (Acrylic and Oil on canvas, 70 X 90 cms)

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Fuck it ALL

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Some brief points -

The setting suggests a research facility with workers, and penned, disproportionate research animal (again suggesting that it has been modified to overgrow)

*The undefined figures are reflective of (the neutrality of) CCTV footage -the coming and going of eg lab technicians, which is used in film as a blur of human figures across an area
* they are also undefined in the way that industrial/medical research workers that use animal subjects are largely anonymous

* the creature itself is unrecognisable because :

can be seen from different viewpoints and presents as different animals (dog/bird/cat) ie it no longer functions as a cohesive organic unit for its own needs
*it has been physically altered ; is dysfunctional, anaesthetic
*it is already traumatised and undergoing further experimentation


I have cut down detail etc etc since my last painting.
Reasons incude -

* a reaction to what I consider was OVERworking in some stages of previous work:
*the subject matter
* influence of Francis Bacon ---I would rather now put in too little than too much.

I feel that a sparse technique is almost like a privilege I have earned--by working over 10 years of pictures* with the most complex, detail-FULL subject matter possible, using the most laborious painstaking medium of pen and ink.

*The Aftermath Series (a more or less unknown, largely unseen body of work)