McAlpine Miller

McALPINE MILLER

“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 & II Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches each

Celebrate My Desire 3D Relief Editions of 10 35 x 50 inches

Feeling the Pain Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches

Oblivious to Her Surroundings Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches

Red Devil Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches

Drawn to a Seductive Power Oil on canvas 22 x 32 inches

Moss Pop I & II 3D Relief Editions of 10 25 x 62 inches

She Creates Terror 3D Relief Editions of 10 35 x 52 inches

Attention Seeker No. 2 3D Relief Editions of 10 35 x 50 inches

Strike Force Once (Triptych) Oil on canvas 6 x 34 cm, 22 x 34 cm, 6 x 24 cm

Lipstick Enlistee Oil on canvas 28 x 22 inches

The Shape of Things to Come 3D Relief Editions of 10 35 x 53 inches

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2011 Hay Hill Gallery, London State of the Art Gallery, Hong Kong 2010Hay Hill Gallery, London Grosvenor Street, London Cross My Art, London 2009Kings Road Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair, London 2008Barker Gallery, Eton Solo Exhibition, London 2007Decoratum 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 2003Rebecca 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

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