Slinkachu

162 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London SW3 2JL www.andipa.com | art@andipa.com | +44 (0)20 7589 2371

Introduction As removed as we are from the natural world, we seem intent on recreating a poor facsimile of it. Our cities are sprinkled with landscaped parks to which we descend at the first sign of sun. We drag our children to commune with nature, trapped behind the bars of zoos and petting farms. And some of us, lucky enough to have a scrap of land to call a garden, huddle around disposable barbecues and throw bits of burger bap at the pigeons.

Much like us, Slinkachu’s little people seek out these tiny oases within the city too. In Paradise we find one exploring a tropical waterfall worthy of an office motivational poster, if not for the discarded Sprite bottle that causes this ‘un-natural wonder’. In The Glade a tiny lady sits on a matchstick swing hung from an over-arching weed, a scene reminiscent of The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and almost, but not quite, picturesque. In The Jetty, children frolic in a lake of melting ice-lolly, bringing to mind nostalgia for those long summer days of our youth – or perhaps a scene from a film we once saw, showing what our youth should have been.

Like the real-life enclaves of nature with our cities, these miniature ones are contrived and manufactured too. We can see tropes ripped from landscape paintings of the past such as the obsession with the idyllic pastoral scene, or the distant town nestled between the hills. Slinkachu also employs clichés from popular culture such as the rearing horse against a sunset, so often used in film and TV to signify a feeling of freedom and exultation at the end of an adventure. That the artist constructs these scenes through the tunnel-vision of a lens and the crop of an image only adds to the artificial nature of these miniature ‘hidden landscapes’.

The weeds though are real. So are the blackberries and blossoms and moss.

Slinkachu highlights these things that we overlook. One can imagine that if we abandoned the city tomorrow, it wouldn’t take long for nature to begin reclaiming the urban landscape – those tiny weeds creeping up through the cracks in the pavement and slowly erasing all of our creations.

July

July One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 53 x 100cm Edition of 30 - £2,200 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 16 x 30 cm Edition of 35 - £650 +VAT.

October

October One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 53 x 100cm Edition of 30 - £2,200 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 16 x 30cm Edition of 35 - £650 +VAT.

January

January One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park, London, 2015 C-type print on aluminium 53 x 100cm Edition of 30 - £2,200 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 16 x 30cm Edition of 35 - £650 +VAT.

Back to Nature Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Foraging Chiswick, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,800 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Landscape Painting

Landscape Painting Parliament Hill, Hampstead, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

The Glade

The Glade Crystal Palace, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Puddles

Puddles Victoria Park, Hackney, London, 2015 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Turning of the Seasons Wandsworth, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 70cm diameter Edition of 15 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 20cm diameter (paper 30 x 30cm) Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Fall

Fall St. Johns Wood, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium with perspex facing 180 x 120cm Edition of 5 - £2,900 +VAT. Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 80 x 53cm Edition of 50 - £650 +VAT.

Through the Valley

Through the Valley Chiswick, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 180 x 99.5cm Edition of 5 - £7,500 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 80 x 44cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

The Jetty

The Jetty Southbank, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 120 x 180cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 53 x 80cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

God’s Green Earth Vauxhall, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 120 x 180cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 53 x 80cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

Paradise

Paradise Surrey Quays, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 180 x 120cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 80 x 53cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

Alive

Alive Tower Hill, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 120 x 180cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 53 x 80cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

The Stream Royal Victoria Dock, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 120 x 180cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 53 x 80cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

Born Free

Born Free Wandsworth Bridge, London, 2014 C-type print on aluminium 120 x 180cm Edition of 5 - £7,800 +VAT. C-type print on aluminium 53 x 80cm Edition of 30 - £1,800 +VAT.

London

Mixed media in perspex box frame 80 x 200cm POA

162 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London SW3 2JL www.andipa.com | art@andipa.com | +44 (0)20 7589 2371 ISBN: 978-0-9568292-2-1 Design by Karl Gilbert www.karlgilbertcreative.com | kgilbertuk@gmail.com All images © Slinkachu

162 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London SW3 2JL www.andipa.com | art@andipa.com | +44 (0)20 7589 2371