Jesus Help Me Find My Property by  Tony Swain

Jesus Help Me Find My Property 2007

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Dimensions: support: 760 x 3190 mm frame: 860 x 3237 x 55 mm

Copyright: © Tony Swain | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate

Editor: This is "Jesus Help Me Find My Property" by Tony Swain. It's an enigmatic collage, almost like a fragmented dreamscape. The way these disparate images blend…it's really intriguing. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It feels like a journey through memory, doesn’t it? Swain's layering creates a disrupted landscape. Newspaper becomes scenery. The "property" could be literal or a search for belonging, don’t you think? Perhaps it's even self-referential? Editor: I never thought of the newspaper as a landscape itself! Curator: Exactly! It makes me wonder about the stories within the stories, the newsprint becoming the very ground we walk on. Editor: It's given me a whole new perspective on collage. Curator: Me too. Art always leaves you with new questions, doesn't it?

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This panoramic landscape unfolds on close inspection into layers of applied paint, printed images and text. Collaged newspaper is painted over until images and texts blend into a harmonised and sedate composition. The imperfection of the bent corners and ripped edges are as much part of the work as the paint. Gallery label, February 2010