Guy Bigland

The form of my work varies from one project to the next.  I make paintings, installations, prints, books, photographs and drawings. 

My principle area of interest is language and information.  My work explores the possibilities of visual meaning to be found within the familiar, the everyday, the commonplace, the marginal, the disposable.    The raw material for my work is written language, lists, tickets, stationery, computer disks, information systems, signs, communication devices etc.  Of course, by implication, a fascination with such phenonema betrays an underlying interest in how we read, communicate and interact. 

I am interested in meaning – how it is created and located through complex networks of language,  experience, associations and connections at once unique to each viewer but also to some extent socially shared and understood.  Also important is how meaning locates itself in relationship to an artwork and, by extension, everyday objects, signs and texts.

Key aspects in my work are certain polar relationships which occur within modes of address, communication and information systems. These are the relationships of formal versus informal, handmade versus mass-produced, public versus private and word versus image.