GROWTH AREA

New work by SIMON HADDOCK

13^th May – 1^st June 2011

Charlie Dutton Gallery is proud to present Simon Haddock who is a painter and installation artist living and working in London.

His constructed landscapes have the quality of an imaginary urban landscape, and in his new work he moves to explore some of the imperatives and fragile coexistences that underpin this complex human, technological ecosystem.

In this exhibition, he further explores the connection between the methodologies of painting and patterns of growth, qualities that are at once physically tangible and intuitively felt. He describes a painting ‘acting like a virus.’ Extending this idea he says ‘a work quickly creates its own relations, its own logic; a propagation of possibilities multiplying itself into being’. The new works appear almost cartographic, surfaces across which structures and visual forms ‘migrate’. ‘The process of making the work is like the generation of a multi-dimensional map evolving through time. As a work grows, hamlets or satellite towns on the outskirts gradually become subsumed. The fabric of the painting slowly reveals these settlements, and their importance in the work may grow or dissipate into nothingness.’