Jason Rouse
Statement
My work touches on the duality of past and present in art in relation to technology, playing on the preconceptions of the spectator and importance of their personal interpretation.
I paint romanticized landscapes and buildings visually reminiscent of American realists such as Edward Hopper, dealing with similar subjects with similar application of paint but with source imagery derived from fictional locations.
In painting, I see the medium’s unavoidable history not as a hindrance, but as a crutch from which to establish contemporary concepts. Uninhabited scenes such as environments tailored for simulated violence are sourced from popular ego-shooter computer games, creating an uneasy tension eerily glorified in paint.
Paint is very important to the work. Although I investigate the relationship between technology and art through other media and methods, painting remains my primary discipline. The paint is applied loosely to the board and brush marks are visible, relating to the tactile quality of the medium and allowing the scenes depicted in the paintings to exist by hinting at the supposed reality of the source image, via the historical context of painting in art.
Profile
A recent graduate with an interest in how modern technology relates to the traditional aspects of art. A variety of disciplines are explored but large landscape paintings represent the main outcome. Rouse has won various painting competitions and scholarships in his native Northern Ireland, and has works in private collections including the Irish Government
Education
BA(Hons) Fine Art: Painting
Bath Spa University, Bath School of Art and Design 2005-2008
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies
Limavady College 2004-2005
Recent Exhibitions
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 11-23/August/2008
The Arts Organisation
Group Show
Nottingham
Control Art Delete 27-30/June/2008
Free Range Graduates 2008
Truman Brewery, Central London
Bath Spa School of Art and Design Degree Show 06-10/June/2008
Somerset Place, Bath, Southwest England
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