GoGo

Chris Milton

5 to 27 April 2008

The characters in Milton’s Go Go series are a vibrant and chaotic mixture. Desire and denial, joy and trepidation, dominance and deference create a dynamic tension in these spontaneous and expressionistic works which have grown out of the artist’s considered conceptual analysis of intention within his theme.

Go Go features drawings with paint, made in response to a series of visits to London’s fetish and dance clubs. In these works Milton does not attempt to accurately record what he sees, rather they are formed through remembered emotions and sensations, conscious and unconscious thoughts. The characters are ‘made up’, a distilled essence or archetype, reminiscent of particular types of people or places.

Significantly, in a time where photography and film are the accepted medium of eroticism and sexuality, these drawings return us to the more intimate and seductive media of paint and line. Milton’s characters are not mortal or real, rather they are a fusion of experience and imagination.

A selection of Hare prints accompany the Go Go series.

Chris Milton has exhibited extensively in the UK and overseas and continues to lecture part time at various universities and colleges of art. His work includes drawings, paintings, monoprints and illustrations as well as prop and scenic designs for film and TV.