Artist
Joshua Perkin
Joshua Perkin (b. 1990, Shuckburgh, England) was raised on a farm 150 km north of London, however, he has been based in Spain since 2013. Prior to the pandemic, Joshua split his time between painting, predominantly in Spain and the Balearic Islands, and working on international skatepark projects, spending large amounts of time in Africa, the Middle East, and southern Asia. These travels naturally affected Joshua’s artistic research on various levels, and subsequently led to an investigation into traditional concepts of labor and its relationship with artistic production, which was later formalized in an MA in Artistic Production and Investigation at the University of Barcelona, completed in 2019.
A myriad of abstracted visual references taken from all over the world merge into the painter’s imagined scenes, leaving us with a diverse yet distinctive painted universe, generally void of any factual representation of a certain geographical location or people, rather creating a unique painted universe within itself.
Watch 'La Obra y La Obra' by Joshua Perkin. A film by Ben Dixon & Edd Gregory.
Joshua's Style
His artwork is currently centered around an investigation into traditional concepts of labour, and their relationships with artistic production. The narratives presented in his painted images play on a lack of conceptual information, generating discourse and questions about the scenes, the origins of the characters depicted, the architectural features, and the wider socio-political contexts in which these characters, and indeed the works themselves belong.
Joshua’s creative process is a culmination of personal trial and error as opposed to techniques learned from other individuals. His relationship with the work is extensive as he lives in the studio where he can work on several pieces simultaneously. Enjoying the manual process, he stretches his canvases and often builds his own frames.
"My main influences are generally my surroundings and experiences. Although the majority of my painted images are abstracted from reality, my immediate surroundings usually seem to creep into the work, buildings, animals, music, films, books, or the positions in which people are sitting, whether it is in the colour palette, visual narratives or reference to form." - Joshua Perkin
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