Glenn Ibbitson Consignment Batch 11 Unit 9 2015

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The Consignment series developed from an initial theme of escapology into a meditation on social environment. A figure physically enclosed … Read more The Consignment series developed from an initial theme of escapology into a meditation on social environment. A figure physically enclosed within the confines of a frame suggests both cell & refuge of hiding place. Here it's employed as a visual metaphor for the individual as an object.
A sense of anonymity is integral to the ambience of this series; lighting was arranged to cast shadows obscuring individuality. An already anonymous figure is reduced to a mere human commodity through the use of a wholly dispassionate titling system whereby a painting becomes a "unit" & any units of a particular size become a "batch". The whole total of units produced becomes the "Consignment".
The paintings are square in format and have been designed to hang any way up.
Unframed deep stretcher painted edges. See less