Untitled (TS18610), 38cm x 28cm, 2010. Private collection. Untitled (HG30611), 39cm x 29cm, 2011. Private collectionUntitled (PE), 39cm x 29cm, 2010. Private collection.Untitled (TS), 38cm x 28cm, 2010. Private collection.Untitled (BRE), 57.5cm x 39.5cm, 2009. Untitled (TG), 39cm x 29cm, 2010. Private collection. Untitled (TN), 61cm x 39.5cm, 2009. Private collection.Untitled (LT), 64.5cm x 45.5cm, 2008. Private collection. Untitled (TN13411), 61cm x 39.5cm, 2011Untitled (TN15411), 61cm x 39.5cm, 2011Untitled (C392), 42cm x 30cm, 2002Untitled (AAA27118), 53cm x 34cm, 2008Untitled (B13116), 39cm x 30cm, 2006Untitled (DDN1582), 44cm x 30cm, 2002Untitled (DP547), 38cm x 29.5cm, 2007Untitled (DN588), 40cm x 29cm, 2008Untitled (EFM4418), 39cm x 28cm, 2018Untitled (FN22814), 40cm x 29cm, 2014Untitled (GN194), 37cm x 30cm, 2004Untitled (FTA1594), 58.5cm x 39cm, 2004 Untitled (H438), 56cm x 38cm, 2008Untitled (IHT2523), 59cm x 37.5cm, 2003Untitled (H6125), 39cm x 28.5cm, 2005Untitled (IE23217), 37cm x 29cm, 2018Untitled (IHT2633), 59cm x 37.5cm, 2003Untitled (IOS1814), 58cm x 37cm, 2004Untitled (L7314), 30cm x 22cm, 2014Untitled (LIAN8), 35cm x 28cm, 2008Untitled (IOST1814), 58cm x 37cm, 2004 Untitled (LM1682), 50cm x 37cm, 2002 Untitled (LM282), 37cm 33cm, 2002Untitled (NS5517), 56cm x 35cm, 2018Untitled (LRB16116), 38cm x 28cm, 2006Untitled (NYROB1229), 38cm x 29cm, 2009Untitled (H458), 57cm x 38.5cm, 2008. Private collectionUntitled (SA2517), 41cm x 28cm, 2017Untitled (SD2397), 58cm x 36cm, 2007Untitled (TANFAFD16108), 42cm x 30cm, 2008Untitled (PDE16617), 37cm x 29cm, 2018Untitled (SN547), 39cm x 31cm, 2007Untitled (TB1814), 59cm x 38cm, 2004Untitled (TET1196), 59cm x 38cm, 2006Untitled (TG1095), 61cm x 38cm, 2005Untitled (TG12118), 47cm x 31cm, 2018Untitled (TNS10317), 60cm x 37cm, 2018Untitled (TO116), 60cm x 38cm, 2006Untitled (TO1814), 60cm x 38cm, 2004Untitled (TOR814), 60cm x 38cm, 2004Untitled ((TOS1814), 60cm x 38cm, 2004Untitled (TOE1814), 38cm x 31cm, 2004Untitled (TG9910), 38cm x 29cm, 2010Untitled (TTA1184), 58cm x 37.5cm, 2004Untitled (WSJ982), 58cm x 38.5cm, 2002Untitled (WSJB982), 58cm x 38.5cm, 2002Untitled (BN18510), 38cm x 29cm, 2010). Collection of The Ivy Untitled (PDE24217), 36 x 29cm, 2017Untitled (RP31214), 27cm x 20cm, 2015Untitled (PE28118), 30cm x 21cm, 2009. Private collection.Untitled (PE19128), 30cm x 21cm, 2009Untitled (PE919), 30 x 21cm, 2009. Private collection. Untitled (PE1618), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE4518), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE6418), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE10818), 30 x 21cm, 2018 Untitled (PE12118), 30 x 21cm, 2018 Untitled (PE18518), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE20918), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE23218), 30 x 21cm, 2019. Private collection. Untitled (PE23318), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE24818), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE26118), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE27718), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE29618), 30 x 21cm, 2018 Untitled (PE151217), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Untitled (PE231217), 30 x 21cm, 2019 Installation shot from A Personal Perspective, APT Gallery, London, 2020
The empty newspaper pieces – started around 2001 and continuing for as long as print media survives – explore the notion of ‘the edit’ as part of the creative process. Each work is a single daily newspaper with all the information – text, numbers, dates, images – carefully removed with a scalpel, leaving the remaining structure, borders and absences as the work. These are works of reduction and redaction – creation by the act of removal.
The works allude to conceptual drawing, the exploration of the line and the use of negative space; the language of modernist painting; print media and the dissemination, consumption and control of information; as well as sculpture, with the cutting away allowing the emergence of the hidden internal structure of the newspaper as an object. To quote Michelangelo: “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
Simon Leahy-Clark 