James Randell | No More Fun: Candle, 2023
Aquatint
44 x 38 cm
Edition of 12
Unframed
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James Randell (b.1992) is a London-based printmaker and artist-educator. James has recently established at print studio at gallery Soho Revue. "I am interested in narrative structures, and how chance, erasure and reappropriation can give rise to new stories or shed light on old ones. I pursue this interest in collage, print, painting, model-making and performance, with a particular interest in both toxic and beautiful masculine cultures, society's cyclical fears about the end of the world and the aesthetics of English folk art and drab popular pastimes. Recent works are stewed from junk, old books and ephemera. I trawl for, net and submerge characters and plotlines into coded abstraction. My current and ongoing project, ‘No More Fun’ is a multi-media dissection of an 1876 political satire, ‘Fun’. I am struck by the very contemporary collisions caused by erasures of context in this book. The 400+ pages of this faded annual are being sifted for a 10-page monologue from a character called ‘Adam Bobbin’ (an amalgamation of 16th century apocalypse woodcutter ‘Poor Adam’ Toppin and self-taught 17th century engraver Tim Bobbin), a series of etchings, horse-brasses, resin-cast Guinness glasses and a tabletop model of the prehistoric Thames River basin."
Aquatint
44 x 38 cm
Edition of 12
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £40.00.
James Randell (b.1992) is a London-based printmaker and artist-educator. James has recently established at print studio at gallery Soho Revue. "I am interested in narrative structures, and how chance, erasure and reappropriation can give rise to new stories or shed light on old ones. I pursue this interest in collage, print, painting, model-making and performance, with a particular interest in both toxic and beautiful masculine cultures, society's cyclical fears about the end of the world and the aesthetics of English folk art and drab popular pastimes. Recent works are stewed from junk, old books and ephemera. I trawl for, net and submerge characters and plotlines into coded abstraction. My current and ongoing project, ‘No More Fun’ is a multi-media dissection of an 1876 political satire, ‘Fun’. I am struck by the very contemporary collisions caused by erasures of context in this book. The 400+ pages of this faded annual are being sifted for a 10-page monologue from a character called ‘Adam Bobbin’ (an amalgamation of 16th century apocalypse woodcutter ‘Poor Adam’ Toppin and self-taught 17th century engraver Tim Bobbin), a series of etchings, horse-brasses, resin-cast Guinness glasses and a tabletop model of the prehistoric Thames River basin."
Aquatint
44 x 38 cm
Edition of 12
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £40.00.
James Randell (b.1992) is a London-based printmaker and artist-educator. James has recently established at print studio at gallery Soho Revue. "I am interested in narrative structures, and how chance, erasure and reappropriation can give rise to new stories or shed light on old ones. I pursue this interest in collage, print, painting, model-making and performance, with a particular interest in both toxic and beautiful masculine cultures, society's cyclical fears about the end of the world and the aesthetics of English folk art and drab popular pastimes. Recent works are stewed from junk, old books and ephemera. I trawl for, net and submerge characters and plotlines into coded abstraction. My current and ongoing project, ‘No More Fun’ is a multi-media dissection of an 1876 political satire, ‘Fun’. I am struck by the very contemporary collisions caused by erasures of context in this book. The 400+ pages of this faded annual are being sifted for a 10-page monologue from a character called ‘Adam Bobbin’ (an amalgamation of 16th century apocalypse woodcutter ‘Poor Adam’ Toppin and self-taught 17th century engraver Tim Bobbin), a series of etchings, horse-brasses, resin-cast Guinness glasses and a tabletop model of the prehistoric Thames River basin."
