Content with Content

by James Frew

James Frew’s practice explores expanded painting and post-digital art production in the age of the Internet and social media. Specifically, how paint(ing), images, and language translate via traditional mediums and new media, through the process of using digital technologies. Thematically, his work nods to contemporary Internet culture and imagery, frequently employing irony, profanity, and transgressive humour. Formally his work attempts to reassess and rejuvenate the histories and languages of painting, expanding its territories by using analogue and digital technologies to blend medium (discrete, analogue objects) and media (networked, digital information). His recent work explores post-digital art practices through the creation of what he calls ‘digipaintages’ – hybrids of digital paintings and photomontages manifest as both digitally circulated images and physical textile printed paintings.