Gary Winters

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Artist statement

I’m influenced stylistically by Pop Art, Conceptual Art and the history of photography; expressing task and process, repetition and rhythm, and a layering of time. My work ranges across lens-based and print media: limited edition screenprints, one-off painted images or collaged photographic pieces. On display are a series of overworked pastel portaits.

Extended Bio

Description of current creative practice I’m broadly influenced stylistically and intellectually by Pop Art, Conceptual Art and the history of photography; with an interest in expressing a task and process, repetition and rhythm, and a layering of time. My work ranges across lens-based and print media, producing limited edition screen print works, one-off painted / overworked images or collaged photographic pieces; often augmenting, disrupting and veiling pre-existing ‘found’ prints and images. I enjoy working with these kinds of images – either mass-produced posters, folio prints or lost and anonymous photographs – to comment on the excessive amount of materials (‘stuff’) swirling and circulating around the world and passing between ownership and that they arrive with a kind of pre-existing narrative attached and embedded in them; representing a time, a place and attitudes, interrogating a value and an intention. Alongside this, I have recently made a pledge to work with and use the art materials, items and curios I have accumulated (being a bit of a magpie attracted to things that I thought were interesting and a potential to work with) – both as a stance and gesture towards consumption and also as a limiting device to generate forays into new processes and practices. At times this makes the output hard to pin down, and knowingly eclectic, a curious marriage of the media leading an idea or an idea explored through a material. I studied at Dartington College of Arts in late-1990s and worked solely in performance and live art for the intervening years. I relocated back to the South West and since 2023 my creative practice has had an emphasis in working in the ways laid out above. I do consider myself an emerging artist in this field, as there is no overlap with my previous contexts / contacts for work and this is definitely a new approach in which I am experimenting to find a way working.