ADAM NORTON

What I like about working from UFO sightings is that the images work on a number of levels. From a narrative perspective they are as much about belief as they are about pictorial evidence, the images are almost always obscure, blurry and only a few pixels in length. So from the start viewers are split in two camps, believers and non-believers. From a pictorial position I like that as an artist primarily interested in narratives, I almost exclusively end up using various abstract marks and techniques to recreate the ‘real’ look of a UFO sighting. The paintings cover various styles including impressionism, cubism, expressionism and minimalism. So they become a potted trip through 20th century art movements. I suppose they can be called post-internet art, although I’m not sure anybody knows what that term means.

Artists: Hayley Megan French, Adam Norton, Amelia Skelton, Brendan Vivian Smith, Alicia van Rhijn. Curated by Anthony Bautovich

Photos: Docqment