Cream and Black 06 1030 mm x 760 mm, items & acrylic on canvas
Cream and Black 06, macro image
Cream and Black 06, macro image
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Brown and Black 06, 1030 mm x 760 mm, collected materials & acrylic on canvas
Brown and Black 06, macro image
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Black and White 06, Macro Image
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Red and Black 06, 900 mm x 600 mm, items & acrylic on canvas 
Red and Black 06, Macro image
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Artist Statement November 2006
Initially, I believed that beauty and order only existed within organic materials, and disorder only in industrial and urban matter, but have subsequently found this to be untrue. Even dilapidated industrial and urban environments exhibit exciting and unique realms. This led towards the discovery of significant habitats and aesthetics found in our cities and urban environments.
I am attracted to things that uncover evidence of their past. In particular surfaces that become blemished and worn over time, exposing sediments, histories and provenances. This fascination has it’s origin in the cliff edge at the bottom of my garden. These surfaces instilled a curiosity in layered strata that expose past events and processes.
I began to explore different methods that capture and record an event or period of change rather then merely discovering them. Artist Daniel Spoerri, who was part of the movement ‘New Realism’[1], made pieces such as ‘Hungarian Meal Trap Picture 1963’[2] where he preserved an after meal tabletop and presented it as an artwork. My current process involves an interaction that also represents and indicates a recorded event in time.
I prefer to use found objects as opposed to their transferred or representational images. Preserved within the surfaces, disregarded and forgotten objects are presented in a new light. Artist Phillip Guston paints his subjects as if “one had never seen them before”[3]. I also aim to achieve this unfamiliarity with my subjects, to reactivate them within the context of art and offer fresh prospects and potential to adopt new relationships and characteristics.
Alexander Bartleet, November 2006
[1] Morat, F. (2005). "New Realism."; A Poetic Recycling of Reality A Movement, A Period: 16. http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-newrea-EN/ENS-newrea-EN.htm [2] www.danielspoerri.org/danielweb [3] Guston, P. (1978). "Phillip Guston Talking." Year 3 theory journal AUT Visual Arts: 141-145.
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Arworks : September - October 2006
Orange White and Black 06, 250 mm x 250 mm, items and acrylic on canvas
Industrial Scraps 2 06, 360 mm x 280 mm, card, shell and acrylic on canvas SOLD
Object in the Rough 06 , 900 mm x 600 mm, model making debrief & acrylic SOLD
