Monet Shot

Bio

Monet Shot is a contemporary British artist exploring consumer culture through layered, pop-infused compositions that blur the line between nostalgia and critique.Working on a bold scale, he constructs his paintings with traditional oil and acrylic techniques, incorporating stencils, screen-print and airbrush to build a collage-like aesthetic where multiple image sources collide. Some are personal, others universal — together they form ambiguous narratives laced with wit and social commentary.Consumerism and the language of advertising – both modern and historic – pulse through his work. What first appears playful or absurd often reveals something sharper beneath the surface: a critique of desire, value and visual excess in a postmodern world.In his latest series, familiar symbols are stripped of context and re-positioned in unexpected environments, challenging perception and generating new meaning. The result is work that is as provocative as it is captivating – vivid, fearless, and unmistakably of our time.

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 underlyingnarrative – 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.