Adam E Justice-Mills
Fire Mural
Commission from Martin Primary School. I was approached to design murals for the four WW2 bomb shelters outside the school entrance. They were suffering from repeated graffiti. I decided to use the theme of "four elements" since an old term for "Primary School" was "Elementary School". Initially from drawings then "inking in" with flat colour and limited pallette on PC. I did an abstract expression for earth, air, fire and water, to the same proportions as the walls. Scaling these up (after prepping the walls - stabiliser and masonry undercoat), a local paint merchant match-mixed masonry paints. Took about a week each picture in all, with help from a volunteer team of parents.
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Adam Justice-Mills
uses paint, photos and pixels, creating abstract layered pictures,
concentrating on recalled movement, structure and colour. Adam's earlier
works in both drawing and photography were highly figurative landscapes
and portraits.
Over time, they became more interesting to him as he
forgot their context but remembered the emotional significance he
attaches to them. What interests him about memories is
how they work - what triggers recollection and association of ideas, how
much can we remember from a tiny stimulus, why do we remember some
things and not others, what makes some things important to remember.
His "memory" drawing series are pen & pastel on
paper. They are his exploration of
how we form and recall an impression of something or someone, how their
significance can be undiminished despite the forgetting of details. The
relationship between the artist's memory and the subject is brought out
through the repetition of a drawn line, based on a recalled pose or
performance.
Adam has recently taken his interest in memory and
applied it to his photographic work. He has created two series of "Visual Poems", inspired by people's favourite places or important objects.
Link to EFO here:
www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk
Registered: 2010-03-22
Location:
London
http://www.alltradeart.co.uk/adam-e-justicemills
http://mememoryman.wordpress.com/
