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Craig Kerrecoe uses colour as a way of abstractly studying and understanding his actions, reactions and interactions with those around him. Pursuing a relatively simple ‘flesh against machine’ metaphor, using nothing more than wallpaper scrapers, he scrapes paint onto each canvas, layer after layer, as if removing these layers from his own ‘self’. He then scrapes the paint off again in the hope that this removal process will somehow ‘reveal’ the true identity that lies beneath. Whether this true identity is genetically composed or spiritually based is probably less important than the expectation that, once free, it will be unencumbered by the weight of a lifetime of experience and assumption.

His experiments with film have resulted in 'Within The Weave', a short film exploring the concepts behind his canvas based work with a repeating whispered background chant,
"To whom do I address my complaint?" The film was given a two month showing at Worcester City Museum in 2008 and later that year was selected to feature as part of the Streaming Festival.


Craig Kerrecoe's Axis artist profile