Nick Mobbs
Winning the Tim and Belinda Mara Award for his 2009 MA show at the Royal College of Art, Nick Mobbs has exhibited in New Sensations, ARTfutures and New Contemporaries. In 2009 he won the British Institute Award for his work exhibited in this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Mobbs’s practice involves staging scenes and building models in or of the home. Disrupting and examining our understanding of such a place, the home provides a backdrop against which Mobbs creates structures that remain ambiguous to their nature and purpose. The anthropomorphic nature of the prints compound this sense further, as these makeshift forts or dens constructed as places for physical and psychological refuge easily become subverted into lairs and places of confinement.
Red Leather Sofa
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Photography
99cm x 132cm
Screen print
Framed, Edition of 5 2 artist proofs
In this pair of works selected for murmurART the artist constructs various makeshift dens using cushions, blankets and furniture, which he then photographs and manipulates through various printing processes, shifting the image from a photographic record of a model or staged construction to a picture of a possible encounter. These large screen prints are printed with six or seven layers of color, producing an intense, unreal color saturation.
£1,800
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