At first, Paul Malone’s work has that other worldly, washed out and double exposed feel to it – strange ghostly images in their own right. With the aid of blue and red lens 3D glasses – the images are extended to yet another sub-real phase where the third dimension is mimicked.
Taking inspiration from the exploration of the Mars Lander Spacecraft and lunar, Martian and solar system landscapes – Paul Malone creates 3D images of rock formations and land masses.
Although manifest in the format of photographic imagery, these works are firmly sculptural in intent. The pictures reference both the rocks as sculptural materials and the creation of a projected space.
The work encourages a sense of access and no-access by infusing the images with a narrative resonance. Paul Malone plays with the strange familiarity that is induced through an earthly recognition - and then conversely with the disorientation and alien sense of an extra dimension. He challenges the assumptions we make from only half perceived visual stimulus.
In this exhibition the artwork Double Take (Brick Wall) 2006 will replace bricks in the brick wall of the gallery with anaglyph facsimiles to create a space that indeed may not exist.
Paul Malone -