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Nicholas McLeod

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Photographs gathered from the Internet, film stills and magazines are the point from which my paintings start. Although ostensibly these images seem to be selected at random I feel that they are actually informed by a very specific tradition of image making. The Psychologically charged paintings of Edward Hopper have ingrained an unnerving tension into our cultural conscious. This sense of domestic unease has become part of a vernacular that has worked its way into cinema, television and art. I am interested in how the landscape and our domestic environment can be used to explore themes of voyeurism, anxiety and other forms of psychosis.

Speaking about Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek identifies the various different floors within the Bates house as being representative of Norman’s psyche. In this he reasons that the first floor reflects what Freud called the maternal superego, the ground floor the ego and the basement the unconscious id. This led me to thinking about the ways in which psychosis has been represented in art, literature and film. Within these narratives isolated buildings and cluttered, claustrophobic interiors are not just backdrops against which a story is played out, but are actually a key component that helps to convey and, in some cases, manifest the psychological condition of their inhabitants.


Nicholas McLeod
London
United Kingdom
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