CHRIS MEW

7 Jul-4 Aug 2012

Overview

Chris Mew previously studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux arts de Grenoble, France, and has recently graduated from his MA at The Royal Academy Schools. Mew creates large scale images on canvas. In an effort to convey presence beyond likeness, Mew draws upon specific disciplines; fragmenting, manipulating, isolating and distorting them to achieve non-illustrational forms. Deliberately destroying potential narrative whilst creating a pictorial battle between different media serves to highlight the conflict within the content itself. Written scripts, film, print, canvas and paint play a gentle game of tug of war against each other, lulling the spectator into a place of quiet discomfort.