Aaron Head received a Longhouse Talking City Com:mission – Click Here to See his Project

Artist Statement:

Aaron Head is an artist who uses anything and everything at his disposal. His work has a distinct ‘folk’ or ‘DIY’ sensibility. Like many things ‘folk’ or anecdotal it attempts to use it’s colloquial tongue to tell tales of bigger truths and grand ideas. His work is often influenced by literature and film, exploring how these popular narratives colour and mediate everyday life. His current practice explores the forces of the constant against the temporary. It is about the belief of ‘time as a never ending cycle’ versus a belief in ‘time as a linear process of progress’. This belief in progress, whether it is religious or secular, is a theme under constant scrutiny in Head’s work. Human ambition is treated with equal measures of awe and humour. parody and pastiche are used in order to highlight the everyday oddities that furnish our cultures. Alongside this is an aesthetic and dramatic sensibility that empathises with endeavours of human idealism. Ultimately Head’s work is underlined with a sense of absurdity and fallibility, but it recognises the beauty in trying.