Antonio Parker-Rees

I see myself first and foremost as a painter. Although my practice extends across a range of mediums from digitally printed textiles to sculptural works, I aim to maintain painting’s sensibility throughout.

In recent works, I hope to bring about the slow from the fast and the weird from the ordinary. Imagery such as found advertising posters and printed photographs of shopfronts become points of departure in my work as I utilise painting strategies to intervene and dismantle their immediacy. I hope to wage in on the imagery’s affect within an attention economy, allowing reference to bleed into medium and information into gesture. Similar modes of appropriation have been extended into recent and ongoing sculptural works, such as ‘flat lays’, which can be seen on my website.

(As a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, I would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign.)