Original acrylic painting on canvas by local artist Chris Bruce.

Title: Wide-awake Indolents

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Dimensions: 120 x 100cm 

About The Painting

The painting is loosely concerned with the hedonistic removal from the every day conferred by extreme wealth. The image itself evolved from a sequence of random procedures. Objects and figures emerged by the action of pareidolia. Finally, there settled on the painting a ‘subject’ that gave narrative coherence to diverse preoccupations current at the time of making. The incorporation of the meandering line of text (from Pale Fire by Nabokov) seemed helpful in this instance in setting a mood. This process of discovery-within-the-act (of painting) is one which parallels, for example, the formation of conspiracy theories: both involve the selection and marshalling of resonant data from a chaotic matrix. 

About The Artist

Chris Bruce lives and works in Cornwall. He has a BA in Fine Art from Cheltenham Art College (2002), and an MA in Contemporary Visual Art from Falmouth University (2008). He would classify himself as a narrative artist, concerned with various forms of story-telling and the populist tropes of the contemporary political conversation. His work has appeared in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition (20 & 21), the Wells Art Contemporary (22 & 25), the Jackson’s Art Prize (Acrylic Prize 24) and the John Ruskin Prize (25). In addition to his painting & drawing practice, he posts political cartoons on Instagram and in online news publications (@bruce_works15). 

With his practice spanning painting, drawing, and political cartooning, his work is rooted in an exploration of pareidolia - the human tendency to find patterns and stories within chaos. In his paintings, figures and subjects emerge gradually through layers of mark-making, the composition evolving iteratively until a story reveals itself.

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