Elliott Wilcox
Recent winner of the 2008 Nikon judge’s award and exhibitor at the Catalyst Arts show in Belfast, Elliott Wilcox takes courts from their function and re-imagines them as abstract line, colour and texture studies. Details that would ordinarily go unobserved, the scuffing, repairs and stains, are exposed to reveal the arena as battle site and its markings by precarious entropic states of order. Wilcox toured the tennis and racket courts of the West Midlands to capture this first selection of his ongoing series, 'Courts', the title of which points as well to the underlying class tensions of these courtesan sports, tensions that fill the coronation iconography with even more significance.
Rackets 01
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Photography
102cm x 76cm
C-type print, Lustre paper
Edition of 25 and 2 ap
Taken of the newly refurbished Clifton Rackets court at Clifton College in Bristol. The rich colours of the electric red lines and strong black walls are captured under natural light by Wilcox to form his abstract geometric aesthetic and mysterious nocturnal atmosphere. Many different abstract forms compose the image: the painted lines, the concrete joins, the marked wall and the worn floor.
£450
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