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About me

Neath is a lone artist riding his horse through the wilderness of the myth of conquest; the Western. Strolling into empty spaces where he finds clichés to explore, building cardboard and balsa model miniature towns, devoid of life, ever changing in form as the models disintegrate, new ones taking their place acting as film sets to be photographed and filmed.

Wandering off his path into other world constructed by film, struck by the ideas and imagery that he finds within them. Exploring the high angles of Brief Encounter (1945) dir. Lean to the single beds in Mrs Miniver (1942) dir. Wyler. Nodding his hat in the direction of artists such the Thomas Demand and Slinkachu, the empty spaces and unseen worlds are the themes they share.

When the boots are off he investigates the fabric and conventions of film, what makes it tick, pulling it apart by manipulating video and digital image. With the notion of handmade at centre of his practice he's work is never far away from his low-fi finger prints.

Professor Neil Campbell of American Studies at the University of Derby explains that the decline of the genre came about with an increasingly sophisticated audience wanting more than a hero coming into town and gunning down the villains to only leave at the end. Films of the time were competing with real images of the Vietnam War and of the Civil Rights movement.

He will always look and ride on in the search of what the Myth of conquest is about, its form and language from its rise through to the golden age and decline before being reborn in its various forms. Looking on with a sense of wonder and yearning to understand what makes it so rich and masculine for the artist who plays cardboard

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AvailabilityLooking for work

ContractPerm, Freelance

LocationLeicester: United Kingdom

Working LocationsLeicester: United Kingdom

Skill LevelJunior

LanguagesEnglish

Tagged Job Titles3D Artist, Photographer, Animator

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Fine Arts, Modelling, Photography, Sculpture, Video

Sector Experience

Arts, Fine Art, Painting & Sculpture, Model Miniature, Photography, video

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