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John Sillince

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Title: Disconnected memories
Year: 2023
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm

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Artist Biography:

(a) Education 2020-2023 DJCAD  BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art Degree. 
(b) 3 Solo Exhibitions. 
(c) 2 Joint Exhibitions. 
(d) 9 Group Exhibitions. 
(e) (2023) Ian Eadie Award, DJCAD Dundee University;  (2023) Longlist John Moores Prize;  (2023) StArt-NewBloodArt;  (2023, 2024, 2025) Certificate of Artistic Merit, Luxembourg Prize;  (2023) Shortlist Emerging Art Prize.

Description:

The image shows a Hong Kong protester in green, an ancient Eqyptian god, and a European cyclist. Triangulating between these confusingly different individuals and their lifestyles provides fragmented images that each individual has to integrate into something meaningful in order to remember. Electronic communication devices prompt shorter attention times so that memorisation can only rely on flashes of ephemeral experience. The intermixing of iconic images transforms them into bland hybrids and watered down versions, leaching out their uniqueness and flattening meaning into a lowest common denominator.

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