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Artist: John Garghan Contact:solihullartists@googlemail.com current exhibition
Genre: Photography: Website:www.johngarghan.co.uk
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My art practise aims to capture the disturbance to surfaces created by acts of joy riding and arson by zooming into scorched, disfigured vehicle parts that are occupied in the lifecycle of corrosion, the natural process that tries to reclaim human made objects to an elemental state more in line with the energy of the molecules the objects are made of.


Torching accelerates this journey of returning to the earth and I look to capture, investigate and at times distort results of the advancement of its lifecycle. Using results of the explosion; scorched metal, molten glass, fabrics, and plastics, the rust and the gallons of water from the firemen's hose I strive tjohngarghano turn a negative blot on the landscape using technology, photography and oil paint to transform the textual image into a positive beautiful landscape.