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Martyn Cross
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The world created by Cross is at first glance strangely familiar as characters indulge in private, primitive passions in a seeming attempt to escape the mindless drudgery of their lives. Yet further scrutiny reveals a murderous undercurrent in the provincial lives depicted; the extraordinary in the mundane.
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Dem Bones
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Come Friendly Bombs
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Pride & Perseverance
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Acting as seer in the creation of these beings, Cross methodically alters and adapts knitting patterns acquired from second-hand sources. Like a disillusioned teenager defacing a celebrity magazine, there is an attempt to leave behind the limitations of suburbia and succumb to another, altogether more fantastic lifestyle.
Home-crafted objects are made in a deliberate move to imagine the type of stuff these unusual characters might have in their possession, or may have decided to make in their spare time - voodoo offerings for an unknown god; gentle cross-stitch allegiance to a cultish sect; hobbyist activities of the damned.
The artist’s birth town of Yate acts as some kind of odd talisman for the work, providing a symbolic gateway through which to explore this alternate universe. A significant influence remains the highly individual people found in such places, to which Cross regularly returns.
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"Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. His subjects take on an almost mythical persona, inhabiting parallel worlds, ones that do not adhere to the same social order as our own. They are there to act out our most primal and private urges, so we don't have to – or take the consequences – ourselves. Each image functions as a votive offering to appease the 'gods' of our own shadowy inner selves."
Paul Stone, 2008 - Future50 axisweb
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Installation-These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand
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