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A practice bound in painting, Archie Nash documents the building of new worlds through a tapestry of found icons, objects and sensations gathered by the observation of culture from the outside in. Personal references retained through travelling, both far from home and on the doorstep reveal themselves in the work. A line taken from a cartoon face, or the decorative border of a business card from the gutter, tread amongst colour fields and patterns stolen by looking, coalescing into a soupy mixture of reference matter. Each reworked, multi-layered surface contains stratified time and offer a patch-worked history of interests. Moments tracked in the forms, colours and studio debris painted, pasted or littered into composite pictures.

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Another facet of his practice surfaces through scrap-booking. Debris collected from walking, daily life and travels morph into handmade books, held together with tape, glue and string. Moments from this rolodex of visual diary entries can be plucked and re-entered as they middle-man the studio and the outside world. Intuitive play is important, as the paintings describe the joy of discovery.

Paintings as lies, truths and fictions of seeing.