Jereny Skyes
'Cross Sections'
October 2nd - October 28th 2002

Jeremy Sykes' interest in technology and industrialisation incorporates a fascination with engineering and the manufacturing industry. The history of industries and their abandonment, the recycling of their by-products in the form of decaying machine parts provides a scope of detritus, which presents itself as an iconic language in his work.

The imagery revolves around the acquisition of knowledge through investigation, disassembling and dissection of the rudimentary segments of industrial machinery in order to gain an understanding of the object, then to represent it through process.

Technical draughtsmanship leads to a selective juxtaposition directly inspired by the environment of the industrial and the intensive multi-layered process of contemporary printmaking.

The work provokes recognition of the functional mad made forms via a disciplined continuity of colour, surface properties and spatial composition.

Traditional techniques and presentation of the images allude to an Empirical, practical research. The collective essence of the work seeks to align ways of knowing.

His intentions are to show a blurring of the boundaries between painting and traditional printmaking by using a well researched and unique approach to the contemporary printmaking practice.