the boy from la gare d’uphall

 

For over two decades my research has focused on the interrelations between subjectivity and representation in painting, drawing, photography and installation. I have been concerned with the impact of “Queer Theory” in the arts where the concept of “queer” enables us to re-imagine meaning and the queer ‘making of sense’ as a site of ‘undecidability’. Whilst this move provides a strong methodological re-thinking of subjectivity, gender and sexuality as something quite different to a fixed, immutable identity; it also allows for the re-imagining of art practice as materially and ethically ‘different’.

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This practice moves between representation and abstraction towards the destabalisation of figure-ground relations as an articulation of the figural. Recent work draws on the symbolic use of colour within queer culture, chromatic values and opticality. There are numerous historical points of reference and varied modes of expression that extend the material queerity of this practice.   

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Henry Rogers