2011 May 6th - CRAIG BARNES "AS YOU WISH"

"My work is a response to the artifice & idiocy, glory and magnificence of modern living, that takes heed of tradition, art history and critical theory. If occasionally belligerent and contrary, it is not intended to be nostalgic.
I suggest that reappraising overlooked moments of the past can suggest ways of looking at things afresh today, and that the experience of how objects hold space is something still to be valued.
We now live in an age where information and ideas are acquired ever more increasingly by synthesis rather than dictum. I believe it is important within this mix to make visible things that might otherwise be missed."