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Artwork

Ape forgets medication

Meades's methods are several and rigorously inauthentic. Painting with numerous tools, froissage, hyper-realist photography, digital manipulation, collage and, above all, chance. When a work is begun there is seldom any conception of where it will lead: the aleatory is all.
The works range from the stubbornly monochrome to the tartily gaudy, from myth to abstraction, from the gutter to the dodgily numinous, from domestic proportions to XXXXXL.

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AFTER MEDICATION: Random Treyfs and Artknacks

An exhibition of works on canvas and on paper by Jonathan Meades.

All works are available for sale upon application.
See Contacts page.
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Birthday Sparks

Treyfs? Artknacks?
Treyf's literal meaning is that which is not kosher. Figuratively it signifies impurity - and Meades's work in every medium is deliberately impure. The title of his box of postcards Pidgin Snaps was explicit. He combines contradictory elements, he fuses opposing idioms, he conjures a rapprochement between his antagonistic precursors.
'Does he want to be Geoffrey Hill or Benny Hill?'
'He wants to be both - at the same time.'
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