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Work Type:relief
Date of work:2002
Materials:medium: acrylic, graphite, nails, screws, spraypaint

support: MDF, timber

Measurements:height: 1 ft

width: 2 ft

depth: 2.5 ft

Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:assemblage
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘So I saw bad paintings apart and re-assemble them, ad hoc, into dynamic, geometric objects, albeit those of a lonely tinker from his suburban shed. They are out of date "avant-garde" Constructions.’
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Source:Artist’s Statement. New Contemporaries 2003 submission form
Date of source:January 2003
Description:
Martin Poyner has started cutting up the bad paintings he does, and builds them into sculptures… so does that make them bad paintings or good sculptures? Or good paintings and bad sculptures?
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Source:Selectors’ comments: J.J. Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren. “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003”, exhibition catalogue, Coventry, 2003
Date of source:2003