George Quiney - You Before Me, 2023
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 400 x 90 cm
Image Dimensions: 360 x 60 cm
Edition of 6 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £200.00 (unframed).
"How do I imagine - and come to terms with - the life my partner led before he met me?"
Across his practice, George Quiney follows a compulsion to draw the scenes that rotate in his mind, a process which acts as a starting point for most bodies of work. He treats the images that he transfers from within as a map of his feelings: a signal of how to proceed both artistically and personally. Quiney makes printed work, often alluding to how we capture memories and tell stories, be it in photographic film or animation. He uses memory to consider the function of relationships, in particular how we might come to terms with our own subjective experience and the unknowability of those who are close to us.
In his most recent body of work - You Before Me - Quiney asks himself the question above. He brings to life his concerns with sequential images that, although they come from his own subjectivity, could reasonably represent a more generalised set of issues. He processes the images with digital engraving, wood, and fibrous paper, using the grain and weave of the materials to meld history, memory and fiction. The resulting tableaux cross time and perspectives, and invite the viewer to step into this creative and, at times, unsettling space.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 400 x 90 cm
Image Dimensions: 360 x 60 cm
Edition of 6 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £200.00 (unframed).
"How do I imagine - and come to terms with - the life my partner led before he met me?"
Across his practice, George Quiney follows a compulsion to draw the scenes that rotate in his mind, a process which acts as a starting point for most bodies of work. He treats the images that he transfers from within as a map of his feelings: a signal of how to proceed both artistically and personally. Quiney makes printed work, often alluding to how we capture memories and tell stories, be it in photographic film or animation. He uses memory to consider the function of relationships, in particular how we might come to terms with our own subjective experience and the unknowability of those who are close to us.
In his most recent body of work - You Before Me - Quiney asks himself the question above. He brings to life his concerns with sequential images that, although they come from his own subjectivity, could reasonably represent a more generalised set of issues. He processes the images with digital engraving, wood, and fibrous paper, using the grain and weave of the materials to meld history, memory and fiction. The resulting tableaux cross time and perspectives, and invite the viewer to step into this creative and, at times, unsettling space.
Woodblock
Media Dimensions: 400 x 90 cm
Image Dimensions: 360 x 60 cm
Edition of 6 (with unique variations)
Framed/unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £200.00 (unframed).
"How do I imagine - and come to terms with - the life my partner led before he met me?"
Across his practice, George Quiney follows a compulsion to draw the scenes that rotate in his mind, a process which acts as a starting point for most bodies of work. He treats the images that he transfers from within as a map of his feelings: a signal of how to proceed both artistically and personally. Quiney makes printed work, often alluding to how we capture memories and tell stories, be it in photographic film or animation. He uses memory to consider the function of relationships, in particular how we might come to terms with our own subjective experience and the unknowability of those who are close to us.
In his most recent body of work - You Before Me - Quiney asks himself the question above. He brings to life his concerns with sequential images that, although they come from his own subjectivity, could reasonably represent a more generalised set of issues. He processes the images with digital engraving, wood, and fibrous paper, using the grain and weave of the materials to meld history, memory and fiction. The resulting tableaux cross time and perspectives, and invite the viewer to step into this creative and, at times, unsettling space.