Karl Shoobridge - 'Cut Copy Culture'

Karl Shoobridge is currently exploring the success of artworks produced in multiples within artist factories, and testing these images for substantive autonomy in a new context. His interest lies in the search for cultural significance and the attribution of new value systems.

As the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction becomes digitally reproduced, Shoobridge has taken his time to methodically hand paint images that would otherwise be delegated to assistants. Through a word processor the core of these digitally reproduced artworks are cropped and dragged over linear time and hierarchies, literally losing the original work in translation.

As the works lose their referent, new signifiers become evident and with them, new value systems. Shoobridge uses painting as the evidence of a long term experience and possibly an intimate understanding of how an image is constructed. In these works, he suggests that the finished form is second to the processes and techniques employed.

BIO

Karl Shoobridge is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at QCA Brisbane. Since 2009, he has exhibited in a number of group and solo shows throughout Brisbane, including recent exhibitions '‘Democratique'’, Love Love Studios and ‘'Easy Now'’, Bleeding Hearts Gallery (2012). Shoobridge has also been commissioned for a number of murals in Brisbane including work for '‘It’s Vintage Darling'’ and ‘'Real Bad Music Festival'’ (2010).