Adam E Justice-Mills

East Finchley Open House Weekends

Monday 12th July '10

The two weekends went very well - I got a lot of very positive feedback from visitors/buyers about the work, including some new directions to consider. I'm planning to spend 3-4 days per week on alternate weeks on the visual poems (starting the Small objects of Desire series) and drawings around the current work (the Last Supper picture). My drawing portfolio is in need of both a selection of colour pastels works and more group work. The aim is to get sufficient work to create a book and to hold a sole exhibition next year.

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Adam E Justice-Mills

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

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