Richard Baker;In their chairs, exhibited at Leeds college of Art & Design,
"His work has evolved through an unhealthy obsession with eBay, specifically with the section devoted to modernist furniture. This unlikely source of Bakers inspiration row upon row of Earnes and Panton Chairs, often tired, neglected and badly photographed are his coveted objects. Unable to own them, he has managed to acquire them through other means- by a considered process of layering, scraping re-drawing and glazing he carefully renders these objects his own"
The exhibition of paintings occupied the walls along a narrow corridor, his exporation of obsession to specific subjects is echoed within the setting of the space and furthermore the size of his paintins expresses an almost secretive hobbie. Aswell the process of layering and re drawing reinforces the action of obsession and envolvement devoted to these objects.
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