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ArchiveBorn1966, Befordshire, U.K.
Lives and works in London
Since 1999 John Strutton’s practice has taken the form of drawing, installation, video/animation and performance. The work often uses the strategy of accrual to deal with a visual form of veneration and cultural reclamation. The resulting installations, of paintings, drawings and objects become a kind of makeshift memorial, an ex-voto offering where nostalgia becomes a form of revenge. The sedimentary process creates a convoluted cosmos of effigies, mandalas, portraits and trophies, a graveyard whose architecture is sustained by anxiety. Sometimes brutal, often absurd, his approach to figuration is fractured, automatic and schizophrenic. He shares a preoccupation with ritualistic process, debased iconographies and compulsive aesthetics with the likes of Austin Osman Spare and Antonin Artaud.
Previous solo shows include at Sara Meltzer, NY (2003), Nylon, London (2002), solo project at Liste, Basel in 2001 (with Nylon) – most recently he was included in ‘Parkhaus’ at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2008.
His forthcoming solo show will be at domobaal in April 2009.
 JOHN STRUTTON, "SIXSTRING" WORKS FROM 'SIXSTRING, 2002-2008', INSTALLATION AT NYLON GALLERY, LONDON, 2002, GLOSS PAINT AND COLLAGE ON ACOUSTIC GUITARS |
