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Mark Vessey is a contemporary photographer and print maker whose compulsion for collecting has propelled him into the world of art. Forget the raw chaos of paint flecks on the canvas as Vessey explains “my work is about trying to establish an order” and what a beauty there is in the order that his camera captures. Collecting everyday objects, Vessey’s eye is perfectly tuned to the symmetry and tonality in a well structured collection a neat stack of matching magazine spines, or a range of weather beaten penguin books. It’s a new take on Pop Art’s obsession with consumerism a twenty first century approach to converting the banal into fine art and one that works to exceptional success. ‘Absolut Blue’ depicts an array of clear glass Absolut vodka bottles, in varying sizes, amassed in a pleasing composition and shot from above. Vessey has artfully abstracted the objects, with the unexpected perspective point, to create an image that is striking, thought provoking and exceptionally well ordered.
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