CAM REID

We welcome Cam Reid to Red Propeller - a young, emerging Candadian artist whose beautiful paintings are vague, yet detailed depictions of human subjects transparently placed within ambiguous, seemingly arbitrary environments of saturated, stained colour - winning the Canadian Victoria Emerging Artist Award in 2010 and making an impact on the Canadian art scene this is the first time Cam’s work has been shown in the UK. - check his work out by
Cam Reid graduated in 2010 and is already making waves on the Canadian Art scene - recently winning the prestigious Victoria Emerging Art Award.

'I want to make people challenge memory. I am interested in our purely mental storage banks that we use to create our personal little realities. Our recollections are so blatantly open to influence and falsities, but we still take them as gospel most times. I feel our dangerous blind faith in our memory has huge destructive potential. It’s this idea, in a nutshell, that I deal with in my work. This is also where the dreamlike aspects of my work originate.

I want to trigger memory in a viewer; I don’t want to support nostalgia. The work I make can be born from highly personal places, digital resources, found textures and photos, but my intention is to always have the finished product trigger the act of recollection in whoever is viewing it. In doing this I try to depict the process of memory. This accounts for the underdeveloped nature of some of the subjects in my work.'