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Euan Lynn
euanlynn@gmail.com | http://euanlynn.tumblr.com
My work uses skateboarding – both as subject and as artistic process –
to explore ways in which people perceive and interpret their
environments. Skateboarding highlights how it’s possible to re-read
and radically redefine the most mundane of spaces, altering the
insignificant aspects of architecture into something that transcends its
intended purpose.
Referencing classical minimalist artworks, Kerb Composition invites the
viewer to experience it by moving around and through the concrete
blocks. Built from readymade kerb stones with the surfaces marked by
skateboarding, the installation allows the viewer to redefine these
ubiquitous concrete forms, prescribing an alternative use to them as
skateboarders do. Expanding on these concerns, Environment seeks to
subvert the clichés of skateboard videos, offering an alternative visual
aesthetic by shifting the focus from spectacle moves to moving
through an environment. A wider interest in the histories of punk and
skateboarding subcultures has led me to produce zines by
photocopying. This format, often used as a DIY political platform, is a
way to pass on my work to other people. Through making zines I have
become interested in the mechanical aesthetics of photocopiers and
the production of high contrast, grainy images.
‘Kerb Composition’, 2015 (concrete)
‘Environment ‘, 2015 (video still)
‘Murals, Waterloo’, 2014
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