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Original acrylic painting on canvas by local artist Chris Bruce.
Title: The Doctor Proclaims His Prowess
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 50cm
About The Artwork
Part of a body of work that reflects upon socio-political themes, the painting shows the doctor/charlatan, a staple character in mummers’ plays, making his pitch. The image itself evolved from a sequence of random procedures. This process of discovery-within-the-act (of painting) is one which has parallels with the formation of conspiracy theories: both involve the selection and marshalling of resonant data from a chaotic matrix.
About The Artist
Chris Bruce lives and works in Cornwall. He has a BA in Fine Art from Cheltenham Art College (2002), and an MA in Contemporary Visual Art from Falmouth University (2008). He would classify himself as a narrative artist, concerned with various forms of story-telling and the populist tropes of the contemporary political conversation. His work has appeared in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition (20 & 21), the Wells Art Contemporary (22 & 25), the Jackson’s Art Prize (Acrylic Prize 24) and the John Ruskin Prize (25). In addition to his painting & drawing practice, he posts political cartoons on Instagram and in online news publications (@bruce_works15).
With his practice spanning painting, drawing, and political cartooning, his work is rooted in an exploration of pareidolia - the human tendency to find patterns and stories within chaos. In his paintings, figures and subjects emerge gradually through layers of mark-making, the composition evolving iteratively until a story reveals itself.
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