John Mitchell
The breakthrough exhibition, ‘The British Art Show’ in1990, brought together emerging artists who were to manifest into the phenomenon now referred to as the Young British Artist. From this show, John Mitchell, along with the likes of Ian Davenport, Grenville Davey, Gary Hume, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker & Rachel Whiteread (amongst others), exhibited a radical testing of artistic boundaries, employing un-traditional materials, eschewing the ‘use value’ of objects and irreverently questioning the notion of the art object in our internet, post-industrial age. The recent work by John Mitchell develops these earlier themes of collecting, selecting, and ‘salvaging’ high and low art materials to open up fissures of new meanings and interpretations.
