Bio: Image

Tygar's practice is a manifestation of his own childhood along with the re-contextualisation of his siblings’. Beginning with the content of books that taught him how to read as a child he proceeds to turn any prepossessed Ladybird book into visual conundrums through the ambition of creating a life long work by following the rule: ‘ a page a day’. Once one book is reconstructed he’ll move onto the next: drawing, redacting, cutting, painting, gluing, collaging, adding, subtracting and manipulating text and image that turns not only the whole book itself but each individual page into an art work of their own existence. Stemming from these comes the concept and theme ‘redaction’ which alludes him greatly, there is something about ‘the magic of the grid’ linear lines, perpendicular shapes that when cover text becomes something phenomenological. He then transforms this phenomenon into an abstract ideology through gestural yet meticulous acrylic ‘painted drawings’ on raw canvas that depict re-contextualised scribbles from his and his siblings’ past overlayed with bars that are situated within a quadrilateral. These two opposing components together create paintings that are a collaboration of ‘past and present’, a battle of ‘order versus chaos’ and bring forth contradiction of ‘spontaneous scribbles’ painstakingly transcribed into ‘patient dexterity’. In other words the work he creates are operative paintings as opposed to action paintings - after all ‘its hard to make something look easy and easy to make something look hard’.

Currently studying BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, born and raised in south east London; permanent Peckham boy.