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Hay Hill are delighted to present Transparent Society: New Works from McAlpine Miller
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“This new series of works celebrates the culmination of ideas based upon the last 20 years. These paintings concentrate and focus on the fading of one idea into another with distorted images and abstracted thoughts. Based on the notion that we live in a throw away world each painting both suggests and questions the importance of certain celebrated things. Celebrity, Fame, Money and Greed feature as important issues for each of us. These are depicted as both fading memories and future hopes. The comic imagery signifies the unimportance of these things and helps to suggest that they have been manufactured for a temporary audience. Looking more closely the paintings illustrate a feeling of shallow existence. Surrounded by a myriad of colour, shapes and abstractions our lives are exactly the opposite. The ‘LIVING FOR THE MOMENT’ society, which actively encourages human singularism, seems almost unsustainable. Perhaps a return to truer values is the way forward. Certainly with current consumerism and appetite for fame and success, societies will neither progress nor benefit. Take a look…now take a closer look.”-McAlpine Miller
Addressed to a Superman Part I & IIOil on canvas48 x 36 inches each
Celebrate My Desire3D ReliefEditions of 1035 x 50 inches
Feeling the PainOil on canvas28 x 22 inches
Oblivious to Her SurroundingsOil on canvas40 x 30 inches
Red DevilOil on canvas30 x 40 inches
Drawn to a Seductive PowerOil on canvas22 x 32 inches
Moss Pop I & II3D ReliefEditions of 1025 x 62 inches
She Creates Terror3D ReliefEditions of 1035 x 52 inches
Attention Seeker No. 23D ReliefEditions of 1035 x 50 inches
Strike Force Once (Triptych)Oil on canvas6 x 34 cm, 22 x 34 cm, 6 x 24 cm
Lipstick EnlisteeOil on canvas28 x 22 inches
The Shape of Things to Come3D ReliefEditions of 1035 x 53 inches
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Hay Hill Gallery, London State of the Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Hay Hill Gallery, London Grosvenor Street, London Cross My Art, London
2009 Kings Road Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair, London
2008 Barker Gallery, Eton Solo Exhibition, London
2007 Decoratum Gallery, London Barker Gallery, Eton
2006 Barker Gallery, Eton Charlotte Street Gallery, London Catto Gallery, Hampstead Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow Dublin Art Fair, Dublin
2005 Catto Gallery, Hampstead Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow Dublin Art Fair, Dublin
2004 Paul McCartney European Tour Commission Charlotte Street Gallery, London Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow Dublin Art Fair, Dublin
2003 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London Barker Gallery, Eton
2002 Southbank County Hall Commission, London Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow Dublin Art Fair, Dublin New Contemporaries, London Catto Gallery, Hampstead
