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 series were shown as part of every(n)one at Five Walls Gallery in February 2024.
Photopolymer photogravure prints on cotton rag, imitation gold leaf on discarded mokulito printing plates (carved marine plywood, lithographic tusche, process ink), mokulito prints on cotton rag, relief prints on cotton rag, copper sheet, coated wire, plaster bandage, wire mesh, iron filings, acrylic paint, steel, found objects.
