Peter Atkins

“When I think of the way Peter Atkins works, I am reminded of the great natural historians of the nineteenth century who sought to understand the world around them and the complex relationships that existed within it by looking, collecting, categorising and classifying the specimens they found.  Through this process of documenting similarities, identifying patterns and defining difference, they established a rich resource of physical and visual material that provided the basis for their own scientific inquiry and much subsequent understanding.  Similarly fascinated by the surrounding world, Atkins looks intently, collects relentlessly and sorts, finding order and variation.  His focus is however firmly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the man-made specimens that are mostly overlooked as ubiquitous elements and detritus of the everyday urban environment.” Kirsty Grant 

 

Grubb and Ellis 2008
Acrylic on tarpaulin
183 x 183 cm
American Writers 2008
Acrylic on tarpaulin
183 x 183 cm
Kara Walker 2008
Acrylic on tarpaulin
183 x 183 cm
$150 2008
Acrylic on tarpaulin
183 x 183 cm
Welcome to L.A. 2008
Installation view
Welcome to L.A. Studies 2008
Installation view
Grubb and Ellis 2008
Installation view
LA Project studies 2008
Acrylic on plywood
33 x 33 cm
LA Project, Grubb and Ellis 2008
Acrylic on plywood
33 x 33 cm
LA Project, Hello My Name Is 2008
Acrylic on plywood
33 x 33 cm