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162 Blackstock road
Highbury, London
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Tony Hull
Tony Hull’s work focuses on process and materiality. Through the careful application of mark making the processes of construction are exposed,
whilst at the same time a series of barely veiled motifs competing for our attention imply an act of concealment. As viewers we are made strongly
aware of the encounter between the agency of the artist and our own gaze.
The motifs depicted are ubiquitous – tiles, wallpaper and money – and through that ubiquity a sense of neutrality as well as meaning is sought.
Money leads us to think about the commodification of art, of goods and exchange, the interface between raw aesthetic value and exchange value.
Surface and depth appear closely intertwined; the layering is at times ambiguous and the surface dislocated. The proximity between layers at
time threatens to collapse the illusion, and there is a sense that things could fall apart visually. As well a relaxed sensuousness there is
this sense of tolerated risk, of uncertainty. Confusion is both encouraged and tolerated.
www.tonyhull.com
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