(Digital prints)
These images provide a slippage between photography and painting - they reference the history and language of painting but no actual paint is involved in their production. They are constructed from the detritus of photographic visual imagery that abounds within contemporary culture - the images remain rooted in the banal, but perhaps theatrical, photographic constructions of promotional advertising, retail and mail order. Large areas of black, shadow and chiaroscuro propose a historical density that is undermined by the humble origins of the source material and there is something nostalgic, yet sinister and funeral about these morbid, uncanny doubles of painting.
Steve is senior lecturer in Fine Art.
http://www.chester.ac.uk/departments/art-and-design/staff/carrick
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