Home Front, Kaleidoscope of the Mundane

AOI Member Andrew Foster (Foz Foster)’s artworks are concerned with seeing the beauty in the everyday. Beit through the agencies of domestic objects, experiences, conversations, family photograph or discarded toys, Foz uses his personal ephemera to produce complex drawn narratives of lived experience, mental anxiety, depression, love and joy.

The exhibition, ‘Home Front: Kaleidoscope of the Mundane’ brings together a series of 14 6ft x 3ft, paintings in mixed media on moon paper. Each painting offers kaleidoscopic interruptions as ‘battle landscapes’, of how we process the daily bombardment of information, imagery, objects, sounds, language, and relationships. As we know, happy experiences collide with tragedy, humour, stress, routine, sadness, boredom, frustration, anger, jealousy etc. Life experiences aren’t discrete. Things happen together, colliding, bouncing of each other, vying for attention within our daily routines.

To learn more about the project, you can watch a recent documentary film of Foz discussing the work.

See more of Foz’s work on his website and instagram