‘Not a Photograph and Not a Painting’
Brendan A. Linane
British / Irish
I hope to extract and present refined, almost human form derived from captured photographic images of everyday objects. I remove narrative connotation and intensively develop the inherent abstract qualities through a complex variety of imposed processes. Making and breaking rules in an almost cyclical manner.
The transformed presented images are a result of innovative ideas and concepts incorporating an essential need to surprise myself at every stage of the process. The result may or may not have any resemblance to the origin and is irrelevant. It does not matter what it is. What matters is what we see.
This is a positively obsessional, and long term, ongoing process, rather than a project with any fixed starting and ending point. There is often an essential incompleteness, placing priority on potential above a finished product.
Presentations are numbered rather than titled, to avoid allusion, leaving the viewer to form a personal reaction. Final presentations are limited edition inkjet on archival heavy papers and canvas.
Recent Exhibitions Include:
2018 Belt and Road Petroglyph Show, Bayanuer, Biennial.
2019 Xiangxi, Biennial.
2019 China Art Industry Expo, Beijing.
2020 Nuovo Gallery, 798 Beijing
2022 Hua Su Museum ‘Light and Shadow’ First Prize winner.
2023 Global Poets and Artists monthly featured Artist.
2023 Tu Bu Shi Yi, Ping Xiang 0799 Art Zone, Jiangxi. 14 Oct -14 Nov.
