JULIAN McKENNY


PHOTOGRAPHY


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Lockdown offered time to reflect and approach work in different ways, to use the studio and to bring ongoing projects to fruition.



A New Normal - Work made during Lockdown



The Event



Collaged materials on board



A selection from over sixty works that were intended as sketches for larger paintings but became something in their own right.



Phases of the Moon



Assemblages and collage



Responding to the traditional names for the full moon I have made a series of assemblages combining painted and found elements.



Science Fictions



Dissected and collaged paintings



Think of the truly alien, of Ballard's Crystal World or Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, of visitations, growths, phase-shifts, unknowable, unthinkable, just beyond our grasp or reach.



Quantum Entanglements



or U-CONNECT-2-ME



A series of photographic drawings to accompany the narcissistic tweets of Donald Trump.



Biblically Stilled Lives



Found and made images reflecting on lockdown.



My First Still Life Vol.2



Self-portraits through found objects and natural light.



Self:Build:Self - Patterns of Empire



Part of ABOUT A PLACE



An examination of the decorative elements of pottery sherds found during construction of our house, subtly highlighting the appropriation of such patterns as well as our engrained patterns of behaviour.



Self:Build:Self - Patterns of Empire - Emphatic



Part of ABOUT A PLACE



A different take, pumping up the volume to contrast beauty with colonialism and empire.



Self:Build:Self - Connections



Part of ABOUT A PLACE



Wiring discarded by the electrician making small sketches where they lay. Featured on the front and back covers of Nawr Magazine Issue #2.



JULIAN McKENNY



PHOTOGRAPHY