Samuel George

SG’s work is rooted in process, often altering familiar objects to draw attention to their presence and state. An antagonistic partnership of formalism and realism, the work is both critical of and submissive to these theories. Open to interpretation, the processing teases out the ‘thingliness’ of the object, centring its material state as the point of orbit. 

Elevating placement and combination as forms of creation, the artworks exist in flux, often being reincorporated or integrated with other works to form something else. Like us, and our existence, in a constant state of transition yet never severed from their past references. 

Experimentation lies at the heart of this process, uninterested in antonyms like theoretical/practical, material/conceptual, truth/fiction, the work leaks its existence all over them. Often sympathetic to the artist's working-class, queer roots, it stretches further afield into withdrawn states of being. 

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