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Work Type:	painting
Date of work:	1998
Materials:	medium: reappropriated fabrics support: timber
Measurements:	height: 58 in width: 58 in
Style Period:	contemporary art
Subject:	sport, football, football shirt
Technique:	assemblage
Collection:	New Contemporaries

Description:	Ben Cook's Found Paintings are re-appropriated fabrics originally destined for the manufacture of football shirts. Flawed during their production, the Artist’s selects these mistakes and by stretching them onto a support, the misaligned prints, creases, and failing ink jet traces take on the language of painting. Rejects are salvaged to make works of value. [MORE] [LESS] Ben Cook's Found Paintings are re-appropriated fabrics originally destined for the manufacture of football shirts. Flawed during their production, the Artist’s selects these mistakes and by stretching them onto a support, the misaligned prints, creases, and failing ink jet traces take on the language of painting. Rejects are salvaged to make works of value.

Source:	From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.

Date of source:	1999