Sack
Sack is a collection of cross-media works that all feature disposable plastic bags – large format paintings, smaller scale screen-prints, giant replica carrier bags and a blow-up from a mini Polaroid of a giant black bin-bag (the bag was discovered on a London street in the vicinity of Cork Street, the capitals erstwhile ‘art capital’).
Stripey carrier bags are a part of everyday life. Along with their cousins, the plain single-colour carriers, these bags represent an unbranded and utilitarian form of shopping. For Sack, these everyday disposable items are transformed to reflect the scale and ambition of modernist abstract paintings; any high-minded pretensions are however, displaced by the bags ordinariness. Sack also includes a series of screen-prints of carrier bags collected from fish’n’chip shops, greengrocers and other non-brand stores from around the world.
Mixed media including paintings, screen-prints, photography and construction, 2002-2003
