Darren Coffield
“For many years I have been preoccupied with the war that rages on remorselessly across the world. The War of Images. In response I decided to search for an image, the imperial image, the image that would dominate all others, but this only led to a false notion of individuality and freedom.
Painters, like Insurgents, are solitary and obscure agents, occupying unwanted spaces, preparing symbolic provocations to be unleashed on the public with a bang. I find myself surrounded by ideologies that appear contagious, perhaps inescapable, a necessary part of the human condition or a superfluous and life threatening madness: The Society of the Spectacle.”
