Steve Perfect London, United Kingdom

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The drawings happen in another universe, a universe close to our own, but separated by a sheet of paper. What you see is how the world would be if people, things and places were made of simple stuff like ink, paint and glue. You see how it would be if our world were slipped out of its three dimensions and pressed flat by a hand and eye at once determined and distracted.

Things are pushed together unexpectedly. Georgio Morandi and Gerald Scarfe at adjacent tables in a crowded cafe. Francis Bacon sitting next to Yogi Bear on the bus home.

And in the mind of the artist? Drawing lifts off, flies, goes in two directions at once, backwards, upside-down. While it definitely is something, often it’s actually against something: against perspective, against the descriptive tendency of colour, against logic, common sense, common decency. It’s against illusion, against the artificial, the artistic, against art. It’s in defiance of a messy vision, a noisy world.