ALTERED IMAGES
Scottish-born and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, McAlpine Miller displays all the characteristics of his home nation – tenacity, determination and a wry sense of humour. ‘Unlike a lot of artists I am a painter who owns up to living in 2013 – I do live in the real world and my art reflects this’ he comments. He freely admits that he has been toiling at the coalface of the art world for the last twenty years and has only recently won the critical recognition he deserves. Here we proudly present ‘Altered Images’, McAlpine Miller’s beautifully executed debut exhibition of never-before-seen original art with Washington Green Fine Art. A distinctive and striking collection, featuring stylish, cool ‘supermodel-esque’ women, superimposed over brightly coloured cartoons, in an illusionary world of comic book characters. Taking the idea of the central figure and revealing an alternative opinion of that character, this collection hopes to expose the ongoing nature of the ‘transparent life’. Beauty is only ever skin- deep and our ability to hide behind the façade has become something of a 21st century art form. Highly celebrated and widely identified beauty hides the ugliness of our reality; war, hatred, anger and religion make up our every day. These realities combine to challenge us and perhaps create a greatly unstable world. By uncovering our real issues we discover ourselves. Undressed to the world, yet layered to the world. The illusion continues...
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