Shadow People, 2023, Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Be a Sunbaker, 2023, Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Battle Cry of the Dead, 2023, Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Messengers, 2023, Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Cup of Fire, 2023 Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Master of Two Worlds, 2023 Acrylic, Hand Silk Screen Print, Cotton Canvas, 86 x 118cm
Sequence One is a combination of street photography and screen printing that deconstructs understandings of places in Sydney, Australia to create new meaning, expose the hidden, and evoke unexpected connections. The manipulation of photographic reality through the screen printing process and the placement of images into sequences drive a symbolic visual language that cultivates a refined sensitivity and emotive response. Screen printing materiality disrupts the photographic record to express alternative ways of experience and imagination. Disrupting responses to urban aesthetics creates spaces where social forces clash with ingrained narratives to elicit considerations of alternative existence and reimagined futures. Manipulating urban experiences alters their context to create new meanings and associations that challenge, expose and subvert the social and political forces that shape the environments where people live. Sequence One reveals how the urban environment is not a neutral or natural space, rather it is a product of social, economic, and political interests that influence how people move, feel and act in their environments.
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Andrew explores social and political conflict through street photography and screen-printing. His works are metaphors for conflict between individuals and groups, isolation and belonging, strangers and friendships, physical worlds, ethereal realms, and loyalty to political narrative and societal normality. Andrew anchors his practice on social and political conflict in images of people and urban places to create new stories that disrupt reality and point to knowledge beyond everyday experiences.