Chris Follows Artist London UK

Painting: Chris has developed a unique style of painting produced through a repetitive application and removal of acrylic paint onto aluminium mesh. Chris is in some way removed from the creative act of painting, he only views the results of his labour once the paint is dry and the painting is turned over. The imagery for Chris’s paintings resonate a sense of loss and irreplaceable time. View the full portfolio of paintings by Chris Follows.

Video Internet: Chris is currently exploring the Internet as a creative platform and resource for video/web based artwork. 

“The internet is already a democratic broadcasting space for everyone and many sites allow you to upload your personal digital footage from mobile phones and DV cameras.  Video artist have yet to colonise the Internet as a viable equivalent or alternative to conventional gallery video art/installation. The unique framework and spectatorship of the internet provides an exciting and uncultivated opportunity for all video artist to explore”. 
“I am interested in the culture of random Internet video users who upload their personal ‘home’ digital footage on to a public platform. I see video sites like ‘You Tube’ as a creative resource for ‘found footage’ various ‘home’ videos are captured from random Internet sites, I store and reworked ‘found footage’ into new video narratives or loops. The final result can include over twenty separate pieces of footage edited or composited together to produce a video montage that is redistributed onto the video sites where they first originated; the videos are also converted to DVD and shown in a gallery environment. I like the possibility that the original  ‘owners’ will come across a section of their own footage re-contextualised. I also find interesting the speed in which the process can manifest itself, somebody can upload their video and within days it can be captured and reworked and shown in a gallery or online.” More..

Installation: Chris’s installation work includes found, discarded or forgotten objects, collected and stored and reworked and resurrected into new memories and contexts. More..

Community Arts Commissions and Residencies: Arts Council commissioned residency in Golborne W10, www.golborne.org a visual record of time spent in the Golborne area (2003/4). The Arts Cruise’, digital/film collaboration between Chris and 12 young people from St Augustine's school, Westminster exploring developments at the Paddington basin (2004). A yearlong residency at AIT, a software developer based in Henley Chris also assisted artist Richard Layzell on a major public art project in the centre of Maidenhead (2001). More..

NEXT Exhibition: re:INVENTING
National Marinetime Museum
16th October – 31st Jan 2007 Info..

The Boat’ Acrylic paint and perforated
mesh 86cm x 80cm 2006