Seed Gallery - Richard Freestone

Richard Freestone 28 July - 8 August 2010 Preview: Tuesday 27 July, 6-8pm
Having recently returned from a year abroad, Freestone’s new works capture not only the sense of adventure but also the displacement that comes with travelling. In today’s world, one can simultaneously belong everywhere and nowhere. Insofar as our experiences shape us, it is also possible to lose one’s sense of belonging on returning home to find oneself, not the place, irrevocably changed.
Richard Freestone draws on a number of influences; from the decorative expression of the art nouveau movement through to modern concepts of cartoon romanticism. He extracts imagery and modes of representation from popular culture and the media, comic strip art and advertising, and has developed a whimsical cast of characters to enact each of his strange narratives.
There is a certain tension in these works; a dialectic between place and displacement, between movement and stasis, travel and home, and present and past. Freestone’s narratives exist outside of time; after all, yesterday, today and tomorrow can all coexist in an artwork, as can here, there, and everywhere.
Special thanks to Invivo Wines