Adam Dix’s works are reflections and symbolisations of every day life occurrences and practices. The artist uses traditional folk customs, religious ceremonies as a way of portraying contemporary modes of operation and communication.
Adam Dix, born in 1967, lives and works in London. Dix completed a BA (Hons) in Graphics and Illustration in 1990 at Middlesex and in 2009 an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art.
Adam worked for 20 years as a graphic illustrator. His understanding of Technicolor, layering and storytelling is still very present in his work. Adam Dix’s paintings are made of diligently constructed, layered compositions. They can seem quite graphic at first, but upon closer look the works are deep and very densely constructed. Adam Dix’s pieces are made of an accumulation of hand painted glazes, giving the impression of being lithographs, reflecting on post war iconography and printmaking. The works are ritualistic, both in their subject matter and in their architecture. The depth created through this intricate layering process create a dream, nostalgic type of imagery, which mirror the landscape of analogue and digital medias.
Adam Dix’s works are reflections and symbolisations of every day life occurrences and practices. The artist uses traditional folk customs, religious ceremonies as a way of portraying contemporary modes of operation and communication. In his works, telephones and satellites become immortal totems, aggregating the flow of communication and the whole of humanity.
Dix’s works trace back the history of technology and where it started after the war, its usage and related objects as well as its accompanying and derivative codes and formalities. The artist delves into the nature of rituals through the ages, and notably creates parallels between past and present: from Folk and shamanic occurrences, to Science Fiction and contemporary mysticism. The artist quotes Metropolis, The Wicker Man and The Blade Runner as reference points: Adam talks about “The Virtual Superstation”. This aesthetic of the moving image and the cinematic is omnipresent in his work, implicit in the the layered figures and grand theatrical landscapes, explanative of the binding contexts between the past, the present and timeless.
