Dave Parsons South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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I am an artist working in Sheffield painting and sculpting alongside welding, making and restoring to make money. I went to art college in tI mid 80's for an art foundation course and failed it so not really trained but not fully an Outsider. At 60 I was diagnosed with combined Autism and ADHD and discovered an underlying cause for many situations I have been in that have influenced my work

Largely my work looks at our perceptions of our selves and each other, at ethics and opinions and their expression in philosophy, politics, culture and society. my aim with my work is to produce pieces that follow the principal that art must comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. This can be seen by my general opposition to Social Conservatism wherever it exists, to government policy that support or commit unethical and immoral actions such as the Israeli Genocide in Gaza, discrimination against refugees and migrants, transphobia and so on

In practical terms most of my work is 2 dimensional using Acrylics applied via every means possible from brushes to screen printing as appropriate. The surfaces I use are Lining paper, watercolour paper canvases made from found and recycled materials sourced from skips and reworked and boards coated in Gesso. Recently I have been experimenting with oils for painting and a return to charcoal and pastels. Occasionally I also work in steel, to make sculpture mostly from scrap