Steve Fricker
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Steve Fricker studied painting at Chelsea School of Art, graduating with a Degree in Fine Art. A 25 year career in political illustration followed, influencing his conceptual approach to briefs, which can be seen reflected in his narrative paintings today.
Steve’s work is essentially concerned with the human condition, which he explores through found and familiar objects, presented both in still life compositions and as symbols within surreal narrative landscapes.
Scrap metal, old photographs and found objects, often collected from the beaches around Sussex, are arranged and rearranged until a connecting narrative emerges. The past is preserved and connects to the future through the things we treasure and the emotions they evoke. The intangible values they present act as containers of remembrance with experience crystallised in the form of objects that trigger our memories, giving the object life - a soul of its own - to take on meaning beyond physical form.
The juxtaposition of found objects, which bringing with them, as they do, their own past along with our recognition and recollection, creates a resonance, tensions and reverberations, like actors on a stage. The result is dynamic and deeply moving to the viewer. -
Steve Fricker’s work has been purchased by private collectors, such as The Right Hon. Michael Portillo, Tam Dalyell MP, Professor Colin Pillinger CBE, Anthony Steen MP, and is held in permanent collection at the University of Kent. His work has been published in numerous national newspapers and magazines, and he was awarded the Rhône-Poulenc Prize for his illustrations for What Happen’s When?
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