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Artist Statement: Richard Denne
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature, this primary figure is repeated without end.”
Richard Denne’s work descends from Emerson’s ‘Circles’ essay. Vision, society, and nature comprise a series of concentric circles – and yet this printmakers eye breaks away from this, incorporating throughout his empire of forms the parallel and the perpendicular.
As an artist/printmaker Denne is interested in both the traditional and the emerging printmaking techniques. Having been described as a Conceptual Artist, Denne tries to avoid the contamination of sentiment when producing his prints.
More recently sculptural forms and structures have heavily influenced the work. His cells, prisons and conduits, however obliquely composed, encourage an ‘Op Art’ reading.
This work draws from Denne’s interest in repetition, series and sequences and as a consequence often has multiple parts to it.
The work is seen as a visual way of examining a journey where the thought process has been given to both the experience and the consideration of what might have been. This process defines itself into a generic statement and is worked throughout a logical format. The end result is a series of images that visualises the mundane allowing the viewer all options, in which to make an informed choice.