Curriculum Vitae VI-X

Curriculum Vitae VII
oil and acrylic on board 
150 x 120 cm 
1986 - 1992

Curriculum Vitae VIII
oil and acrylic on board 
150 x 120 cm 
1986 - 1992

Curriculum Vitae IX
oil and acrylic on board 
150 x 120 cm 
1986 - 1992

Curriculum Vitae X
oil and acrylic on board 
150 x 120 cm 
1986 - 1992

Why Curriculum Vitae? Are those not the world's dullest documents, a yawn to produce or peruse? 

In the days when I used to apply for jobs (before I managed to get away with making art all the time) I was always writing out CV's. Reading through such items now I see that in no way did they reflect my real existence or document my life. They spoke only of things unimportant to me, news from a grey world. A true chronicle of key events would be quite different, for the great cluster of formative discoveries and unconscious insights occurs in early childhood and is only repeated with variations in later life.

This series attempts to explore, in a sequence of blank verse ruminations and pictorial glosses, the moments when I stumbled upon what has become my 'subject matter', that most important commodity for all artists.

I use verse as a dare to myself, thinking I might be able to match heightened experiences with a heightened style and to be freed by its contraints from dour literalness.