Submitted by Ken Wentworth on Sat, 2009-05-09 18:13.
Artist Statement
Ken Wentworth is a contemporary Australian visual artist based in Melbourne, he uses existing media images and repositions them into a new framework, enabling an alternative cultural dialogue. Visual puns and suggestive titles combine to create amusingly thought provoking analogies. Imagery from popular culture becomes a sign post that alludes to characteristics of contemporary society and personal reality, enabling us to be in on the joke, and to question and critique aspects of both our culture, and ourselves.
Ken graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts - Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) in the year 2000.
'...If we indeed are living in a time of the plague of fantasies, perhaps the best cure that artists can offer is to unleash the images, in order to see where they lead us, how they go before us. A certain tactical irresponsibility with images, what I… call “critical idolism” or “secular divination,” might be just the right sort of homeopathic medicine for what plagues us.'
Mitchell, W. J.T, What do pictures want? The lives and loves of images. (2005, University of Chicago Press)
Art Forms
2 D (painting/printmaking/drawing/illustration/cartoons)
Web Site
http://kenwentworth.net/Contact Ken Wentworth
