Bex Massey

Bex Massey’s work examines the role of painting and the language of display in the face of popular culture. Through the amalgamation of sculptural form and simulacra she investigates notions of worth, both in terms of allegory; the throw away nature of British popular culture and the undercurrent of anxiety drifting just below the surface of daily life. Motifs commonly found within her work to express this consumer gluttony are extracted from the 80s/90s overlap of her childhood. Massey returns to the palette of her adolescence as it remains a slower era-pre computer, internet and cloud.

She appropriates & refashions this paraphernalia in an ‘awkward couple’ of garish nostalgia and traditional making techniques. The nature of painting further epitomising this construct of time and its suggested worth-in the replication of the fleeting image lest the click of a flash, mouse or ctrl alt delete.