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John Moores 2010
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
2010,
Enamel paint and varnish on plywood,
33.7 x 28 cm
My paintings are usually made of many layers. Each new layer continues, contradicts or
buries the previous layer.
I try hard not to start out with any ideas or particular intentions but I'm sure this is not
possible.
The gaps in time between layers mean that I get distracted. I lose my thread, but pick up
another when the next layer starts. Maybe it's more accurate to say that instead of
having no ideas the painting is filled with dead ones.
Parts of the painting are copied, mirrored or echoed in other parts. These copies are then
re-copied and so on, again and again.
Structures are formed by this feedback process and it is as though the painting begins to
paint itself.
I like to imagine all this is analogous in some way to the natural evolutionary processes
by which living things are formed and consciousness is developed. This is probably an
illusion but that may be the point.
Jason Thompson was born in Liverpool in
1970 and currently lives and works there.
He studied painting at Chelsea College
of Art and Design London both for his BA
(1990-93) and MA (1993-94). He was
shortlisted for the 'Swiss Bank
Corporation European Painting Prize'
1994. He has had works in several group
shows including 'TEN Loop Gallery
Liverpool (Liverpool Biennial) 2004 and 'Overview' at Cornerstone Gallery
Liverpool 2007.