Them Dudes is a prolonged enquiry into personal hauntings and imagination as companionship. Four recurring characters haunt the artist’s work over the years. In Them Dudes, the artist creates, recreates and transforms the characters over and over again, passing each through multiple mediums and moods. When does transformation become obliteration? How does the original relate to the reimaged? Using fandom methodologies to engage with the Dudes, this series is about loving the monsters that haunt conscious and unconscious realties.
Works from this series were shown at:
- every(n)one at Five Walls Gallery in February 2024.
- VCA Octagon in September 2023.
- VCA Stables in October 2023.
Beware for I Am Fearless (2023), photogravure print on Canson Edition rag, 370 x 560mm unframed. Image Credit: Astrid Mulder.
Vigil (2023), photogravure print on Canon Edition rag, 570 x 730mm unframed. Image Credit: Astrid Mulder.
Atavistic | Companion III, copper sheet and coated aluminium wire, 120 x 320mm.
Untitled (installation view), wire and paperclips, 90 x 260 x 82mm.
Uncertainty Principle | Companion III (installation view), plaster bandage, wire, copper, steel, synthetic polymer paint, iron, rust, 720 x 950 x 650mm.
Small Hauntings (Hunting) (2023), mokulito print on cotton rag. Image Credit Aaron Claringbold.
Vigilant (2023) (installation view), steel, salvaged steel sheet, salvaged steel mesh, rivets, galvanised steel strapping, wire, bolts, 1120 x 1900 x 1100mm.
Whensoever (2023), steel, wire, copper, plaster bandage, synthetic polymer paint, leather, clips.
Certain Objects (2023), cotton and linen fabric, aluminium, timber, thread, wire, 400 x 400mm.
Lost Things (2023), steel, epoxy, 600 x 700mm.