New to the gallery this September, James Frew’s ‘Interpolations’ series explores expanded painting and post-digital art production in the age of the Internet and social media. Specifically, how paint(ing), images, and language translate via traditional mediums and new media, through the process of using digital technologies.
Thematically, the work nods to contemporary Internet culture and imagery, frequently employing irony, profanity, and transgressive humour. Formally it attempts to reassess and rejuvenate the histories and languages of painting, expanding its territories by using analogue and digital technologies to blend medium (discrete, analogue objects) and media (networked, digital information).
James creates his Interpolations through a process he calls ‘digipaintage’, which hybridises painting, the digital, print, and photomontage; these artefacts exist as both digitally circulated images and physical objects.
You can find this series of work in the gallery and online now.
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