10 October 2017
For the last three years, I’ve worked on a series of paintings based on the Fibonacci sequence, a formula intimately connected with the Golden Ratio. Each number in the sequence is painted with a dollar sign and paintings sell for the represented price. A new painting is made only when the previous one has sold.
The project has existed via word-of-mouth only and the latest painting in the series, Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty Six Dollars (1 March 2017), was recently exhibited at Carroll/Fletcher in London. The complete, up-to-date Golden Ratio series can be seen here.
The work began as a meditation on scarcity, the investment impulse that drives much of the art market, and my own role and place within it. In some ways, the work was an attempt to understand the market’s mechanisms and the complex set of relationships on which it depends.
I’ve always considered reproductions of artworks to be as vital as the originals and with this in mind, I’m launching the first of a series of reproductions of the Golden Ratio paintings, starting with the first one dollar painting made on the 17 February 2014 and gifted to my partner Liz Lock. The print is being sold on my website at the represented value in an edition of 100. If and when this edition sells out, a reproduction of the second one dollar painting will be released as an edition, then Two Dollars and so on.
Above:
One Dollar (17 February 2014)
Gift to the artist’s partner.
8.3x11.7 inches (21x29.7cm)
2-colour risograph on Munken Polar 300gsm paper.
Printed 3 October 2017.
Signed and numbered on front.
Available from here. Limited to one print per buyer.
