Tim Noble
48 x 36 x 2 in.
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Initially appearing as a white classical frieze, closer attention reveals an intricate world where decadence and darkness caper with abandon. Wimsey is used to assist transformation in this media-cultural Garden of Delights, where misplaced amputated bellies, genitals and breasts morph and meld, assisted by material that is stretched across and into different narratives of birth or death across the space. The result is a personal purge of consciousnessoperating without boundaries or limitations yet contained within a leafy border of a comic Hell.
Now exhibiting as a solo artist, Noble is returning to an older form of image making, evoking churches and medieval structures that deal with themes of birth and fertility that resonate with his recent fatherhood. Working in clay casts that are carefully carved over many months, he acknowledges Wedgewood, Bosch and Bruegel, letting his imagination take them into a more feverish and complex narrative that belies their monochrome appearance when they are cast into white Jesmonite panels.
Exhibitions
The Picture, Brooke Benington, London (2023)
