Monet Shot

Bio

Monet Shot is a contemporary British artist whose bold, pop-infused paintings explore consumer culture and the blurred space between nostalgia and critique. Working on a large scale, he layers traditional oil and acrylic with stencils, screen-print and airbrush, creating a collage-like energy where personal and universal imagery collide to form witty, ambiguous narratives.

Consumerism and the language of advertising — past and present — sit at the heart of his practice. What may appear playful or absurd at first glance often reveals a sharper commentary on desire, value and visual excess in a postmodern world.

In his latest series, familiar symbols are lifted from their original contexts and placed into unexpected environments, challenging perception and generating new meaning. The result is work that is vivid, fearless and unmistakably of its time — provocative reflections on the culture that shapes us.

Statement

Working on a large scale, my paintings are constructed with traditional processes using oil and acrylic paint, but also incorporate stencils, screen-print and airbrush work to build up a ‘collage’ aesthetic in which multiple image sources cross-pollinate. Some of the images I use are personal, some universal, and though the final composition can be ambiguous there is a sense of an underlying narrative – often with a social commentary.

Consumerism and the visual language of advertising – both current and historic – are prominent in my works, which therefore often have a playful, absurd quality on first viewing, but which subsequently reveal a more ambiguous and sometimes provocative perspective on the world around us. Within my latest work, the narratives I create operate by key images in a ‘resting place’ that is alien to them, confusing the source image. This approach is a generative act, rejecting old certainties and opening up new meanings and ways of understanding postmodern culture.