Dion Kitson
︎ Awarded the TATE prize ︎
How can you infiltrate an unsuspecting, un-wanting, un-academic audience? The method of practice is reactive and intuitive, work is both playful and pertinent to the current political climate and working-class culture. Film, sculpture and public interventions aim to reflect a pathos of everyday life, subverted and situated in disguise.
The relapsing objects of childhood memory are remade and reformatted as art. Universally representative of a specific time and place in England and reflect the experiences of growing up in the post-industrial town of Dudley, my primary source of insight and muse. Forging the concept of Dudley is a universal metaphor for most of the country, places that exist on hope and promise but trail pathos and disappointment.
How can you infiltrate an unsuspecting, un-wanting, un-academic audience? The method of practice is reactive and intuitive, work is both playful and pertinent to the current political climate and working-class culture. Film, sculpture and public interventions aim to reflect a pathos of everyday life, subverted and situated in disguise.
The relapsing objects of childhood memory are remade and reformatted as art. Universally representative of a specific time and place in England and reflect the experiences of growing up in the post-industrial town of Dudley, my primary source of insight and muse. Forging the concept of Dudley is a universal metaphor for most of the country, places that exist on hope and promise but trail pathos and disappointment.
︎︎︎ Artist Website
Bankroll, Fabricated pebble dashed bin with money spinner
Kebab, Rubbish on fabricated table
Nomad, Fabricated shopping trolley
︎︎︎ Birmingham School of Art ︎︎︎
BA(Hons) Fine Art ︎ 2020
BA(Hons) Fine Art ︎ 2020