Brushstrokes | 2010

Title: Brushstrokes Series
Date: 2010
Material: Acrylic on Board
Size: 12" x 16"
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and unframed by the artist
Location: Youngs Collection, UK





Title: Brushstrokes Series
Date: 2010
Material: Acrylic on Board
Size: 12" x 16"
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and unframed by the artist

Malignant Being | 2009/2010

Title: Malignant Being
Date: 2009/2010
Material: Digital Art on Board
Size: Series of 9 A4 Photographic Prints
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist



Malignant Being 2009






















Being Sick

Yesterday I was so sick!
Sick of the sight of myself!
Sick to my back teeth and then some!
Sick of writing on this page of puke and sickness.

Yesterday I was so sick!
Sick of calling and being ignored.
Sick of sending my love to those so unworthy.
Sick of people writing when, I'm so bloody sick.

Yesterday I was so sick!
Sick of the obvious, obviously being sick.
Sick of being told to fuck off with my sick.
Sick of seeing people dishing out awards for the sick.

Yesterday I was so sick!
Sick of being sick, I am so bloody sick of being sick.
Sick of seeing nothing happening ever to the sick.
Sick of seeing poverty on my doorstep, being sick.
Sick of the sight of others so sick-makingly, sick.

Today I am better!
Better, being bitter than bitterly being sick.
Better, doing nothing than bloody being sick.
Better, beware for I am forever fucking sick.

© Joe Pollitt, 2010





















Title: Malignant Fingerprints
Date: 2009/2010
Material: Digital Art with Acrylics
Size: A4
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist






















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Title: Holely God
Date: 2010
Material: x4 Canvases with House Paint
Size: 95cm x 85cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist

Masquerade | 2010

Title: Masquerade
Date: 2010
Material: Digital Art on Board
Size: 75cm x 100cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist

Description:

"Masquerade" is made up from a series of digital layers. Starting off with the bright and colourful linear shapes that create an optical illusion of movement and behind this movement are folds of papers. These folds make up the three dimensional figure of the classic swan from the Oriental art form of Origami. As these underlying layers of folds push forward, so they create the impression of a series of masks.

The concept behind the work is that at the core of art lies the primitive image of the 'Mask'. This basic shape is at the centre of Cubism and at the heart of Modernism. This form is found in all parts of the world from Papua New Guinea; to the Aztecs of Mexico; to the Incas in Peru; to the Ashanti in Ghana and the Yoruba in Nigeria. All art has a beginning and "Masquerade", suggests that, regardless of the direction an artist chooses to take, they will inevitable begin or end up with the paramount image of the 'Mask'.






By pushing colours and images in and out of focus a possible visual conversation beings to occur. A language of art appears as if in a whisper initially and then the sounds become louder as the images become more apparent and then tapper off at the end. More work along these lines could create a musical function to visual art and so we read a painting as a poem or a ballard or an orchestra of sound. The possibilities are endless and in the future our knowledge of the language of art will be heard and seen in the same capacity and therefore expanding our senses in terms of our visual and hearing capabilities.

Colour Theory | 2005 to 2009

Introduction: The origins of this series started with an interest in the colours seen in Ghana in 1994, which had a powerful effect of me. Red, black and white; these are the colours seen when attending a funeral in Ghana. The colours are so good together, they seem almost meant, they blend together in such harmony that they seem perfect for an occasion to celebrate and mourn a death of a life, well lived.

The huge long heavy thick black drums are carried by four men and beaten either side as the parade thickens in the streets; the magnificent oversized colourful umbrellas bounce up and down as the dancing begins. The bare breasted elderly and young female dancers make a threaten spectacle in the centre as the numerous rituals are being performed all around. A grand funeral in Ghana is a sight to be seen and never forgotten.

The first triptych in the series is entitled "Beginning, Middle and End" and the colours red, black and white seem somehow to sum up a full life lived.

Title: Beginning, Middle and End
Date: 2005
Material: House Paint on Egyptian Papyrus Paper
Size: 50cm x 70cm x 3
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist
Location: Youngs Collection, UK















Title: Colour Theory Grey I
Date: 2009
Material: House Paint on Canvas
Size: 100cm x 100cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and unframed by the artist

Description:









Title: Colour Theory Grey II
Date: 2009
Material: House Paint on Canvas
Size: 100cm x 100cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and unframed by the artist





Title: Colour Theory Brown
Date: 2009
Material: House Paint on Canvas
Size: 100cm x 100cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and unframed by the artist

Humanity Series, Untitled by Joe Pollitt

These images are 2" by 2" with 7 mounts surrounding. The works were created as a reaction to the photographic images of those suffering from Africa and used inappropriately in National Newspapers in the United Kingdom. The danger is showing these powerful works out of context and creating a desensitised society.

Title: Humanity | Untitled
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Series: 4 of 4
Size: 2" X 2" (Framed with 7 mounts per frame)
Material: Digital Photography
Date: 2010
Location: UK Private Collection

*N.B. Signed, framed and dated