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Brendan Lyons, Blu Painting (detail), acrylic paint, 80x80cm, 2008. Installed at the Bluecoat, Liverpool.
On first appearance, Brendan Lyons' works appear to be anything but paintings. An irregular shape marked out on the floor in hazard tape, a canvas-shaped package wrapped in black polythene bin liners and parcel tape. His works are in fact fabricated solely using paint. The entire surface, structure, and support consist of paint alone. Lyons uses a specific technique to produce sheets and strips of acrylic paint which are then crafted into highly accurate representations of overlooked objects, often using more paint as adhesive. Lyons' ongoing practice is an investigation into issues of perception, interpretation and ambiguity. "The paint is used to give an illusion of something other than itself – and yet this is not achieved by the traditional use of trompe l'oeil techniques to convert two-dimensional flatness into a three-dimensional image. The paint takes on the form of the object itself. The shadows and forms are actual." Lyons' work has recently been exhibited a number of high profile UK exhibitions including 'One Can Often Be Thwarted By Some Antidisestablishmentarianism' at Gallery Primo Alonso, London; 'Superscope' at Monika Bobinska, London; 'Next Up:...
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