NAME: Paul Kincaid

PROFILE:

Paul Bothwell Kincaid’s work is haunted by the past and a fear of the torment of boredom: a life without purpose and the inevitability of life’s encroaching end: “Mortality bothers me; like William Morris, I find it difficult to believe that I am going to die”.

Hailing from a Catholic background, Kincaid’s imagery is strongly influenced by biblical themes; he describes his angels as “difficult earth-born images”, not the soft feathered Seraphim of familiar thought, but “ a heavy, muscular manifestation that pushes out of a dark concentrate, a kind of rich physical loam that contains the seed of life: “Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return ... “ These are fixed objects that will not rest; images of sex and Death: a paradox of stone that would be flesh. Kincaid’s work is recognisably figurative, yet unfamiliar - inviting touch, without that reassuring softness, that might circumvent expanded muscle and fat, that provide the perfect issue for allegory.

The production of Kincaid’s pieces is ritualistic process, ideas are drawn from the subconscious mind and given form by stages: collages of restricted visual matter, chosen by primary response, focus the attention and precede drawings, clay models and finally, carved stone. These models are not slavish transcriptions of anatomical studies, but figurative images, whose structural anatomy is determined by the folded sheet clay; it is this anatomy that carries the spirit of each piece. The fluidity of form produced by this technique, provides the basis of its final transition into stone; Kincaid views consideration of this anatomy in his work as “a communication with the non perceived. The Body Mythical and Spiritual”.

Miriam Warner

CONTACT:

vivienne.kincaid@ukonline.co.uk

0044 (0)1559 384215