For pictures of exhibition installation and my publicity photoshoot
Wimbledon College of Art Masters of Fine Art 2008
These works are indulgent assertions of excessive splendour and misguided idealism. They are exploitations of low-culture adolescent fantasy pretending to be bourgeois high art. They play with both critique and celebration of delusions of grandeur and revel in their inherent contradictions. The Society of the Spectacle dictates to the masses via advertising and entertainment what is desirable and beautiful. We seek glamour but find grotesque artifice. The insignia above is an elaborate logo that embodies the narcissistic flavour of the group, a launch of my own brand, a spectacular flourish of someone examining ego, ambition and the expectations of what "art" and "artist" can mean. These works knowingly implicate me in the critique as someone who enjoys the subject matter and loves the medium and history of painting, despite it's unfashionable associations with redundant ideologies and sensuous frivolity.
All works are for sale for £2000 each except for the Insignia which is £2100. Limited edition prints are available of each painting. See page.
Duane J Moyle






