Simon Attwooll

“You can go back to the past but no one will be waiting for you there” 13.06.2025 - 16.07.2025

Considering destruction as a form of creation, I am thinking of the house fire image to reflect current universal anxieties surrounding loss, uncertainty and radical change yet also suggests a renewal, a fresh start from which new ideas and methods of working can have an opportunity to develop. I like the idea of reinvention which is made possible by the knowledge gained through the erasure of something old. 

Layering charcoal scraped from a burnt out house I experimented with a process to construct an image of this found house fire to bring the material world into this work which sits between but isn’t quite painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. An object made from the materials the image represents. 

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