Nash Francis
The series Human Nature Painting evokes a collection of explorations into the depths of society, environment and human behaviour.
Concepts of culture, power, politics and history are confronted through the detailing of forensic type study of the built environment, our forced natural habitat the urban grid.
Duality and the contrasting of themes underpin much of these works. Boredom and alienation, the symptoms of the capitalist/consumerist are weighted alongside themes of invention, re-creation and renewal, humanity and the inhumane.
A little disquiet in the ultimate crumbling truth of humankind or perhaps a harnessed power guided and transcending from the gutter up.
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“This is concrete. It’s also chips and cracks. A body of contradictions. To seek real pictures of a breathing reality. The Corner-shop, the piss car park, KFC and McDonald’s in sick, unsensational concrete. Triumphant and glorious. A nurturing of pavement cracks so that weeds may grow strong and beautiful. Peely Flaky aesthetics that drench in a hand me down history of change and define only by it’s own sell by date. A nostalgia for new. Snappy Snaps of walls, doors, columns, glass and steel, a forced natural environment, an alien high street counter culture. Endless displays of possible opportunity. The uninteresting the decay, the emphatic the change forced by it. These pictures are both spontaneous and well rehearsed, the architectural plans of an illiterate documentarian. The multiple choice.”