Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection
Object Type: drawing
Artist/Maker: Wells, Chris
Date: 2012
Media/Materials: Ink on mdf
Dimensions: overall: 130.2 cm x 82.2 cm
Classification: drawing and painting

Description:

A linear drawing of people and personalities, reflecting upon society found in the streets of Aberdeen and Scotland.

Artist's statement:
I use symbolism and depictions of the every day to tell stories and communicate ideas. I am interested in what can be read and implied from an object, a face or a place and the resulting assumptions and imagined narrative. Originally commissioned for Aberdeen Asset Management.

Object Number: ABDERG2025.2.2