Craig Barnes

Craig Barnes methods of practice respond to the artifice & idiocy, glory and magnificence of modern living. Whilst it takes heed of tradition, art history and critical theory, it is occasionally belligerent and contrary, but it is never intended to be nostalgic. Digger employs an arsenal of seemingly redundant modern objects and disposable ephemera, using them to test notions of object fetishisation. His aim in doing so to open up a space for new consideration of formal sculptural qualities now sometimes themselves deemed redundant in an age when cultural experience becomes increasingly conceptual, momentary and two dimensional.

For Space Within Digger intends to exhibit a flat pack kit building, the specific purpose of which will be determined upon arrival, as well as creating a piece that will literally scratch the surface of the former Karen Millen store in which the exhibition will take place.