Christopher Guest

Staffordshire University: M.A and BA Hons Fine Art

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Artist Statement:

The artistic practice of British Art Student Christopher Guest blends the autonomy of Andre Breton with the (in)sanity of the Outsider Artists, most notably Madge Gill and Adolf Wolfli. His obsessive ritual, consisting of daily ten hour drawing sessions, can be viewed in itself as a valid artistic exercise in which he attempts to rid himself of past demons from an insular adolescence.
In recalling emotions, he draws from a stream of consciousness to create highly detailed pen and ink works, which one would be excused for thinking were printed in their aesthetic quality. His chosen medium is an Edding Profi-Pen with a nib one-tenth the size of a regular biro pen, and it is in realising this that the viewer is really asked to discern such minute detail and fanatical mark making.

Christopher Guest

Staffordshire University: M.A and BA Hons Fine Art