Daily Rites
Daily Rites is an ongoing set of images which explore the impulses hidden beneath modern, commonplace activities. It is concerned with ritual and desire, and other instincts which underpin the modern humdrum. Each design is first painted in monochrome on wood panel and this is then used to produce a small edition of screenprints.
“A quiet life may well be a boring life. The unadventurous existence of a well-behaved citizen, engaged in earning a moderate living in a humble capacity, leaves completely unsatisfied all that part of his nature which, if he had lived 400,000 years ago, would have found ample scope in the search for food, in cutting off the heads of enemies, and in escaping the attentions of tigers.”
Bertrand Russell, Reith Lectures 1948
From Top Left:
Daily Rites | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Daily Rites | 7 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 23 | 500x700mm
Coupling ii (Saving Water) | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Coupling ii (Saving Water) | 4 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 20 | 500x700mm
Mind Chatter | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Mind Chatter | 3 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 24 | 297x420mm
Garden Man | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Garden Man | 7 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 23 | 500x700mm
Gin Cat | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Gin Cat | 5 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 20 | 500x700mm
Life Admin | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Life Admin | 4 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 29 | 500x700mm
Walkies | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Walkies | 5 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 25 | 500x700mm
Work Commute (Bloody Cyclists) | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Work Commute (Bloody Cyclists) | 4 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 14 | 500x700mm
Work Meeting | Acrylic painting on plywood | 420 x 594 mm
Work Meeting | 5 Colour Screenprint on 315gsm Madrid Litho | Edition of 17 | 500x700mm