Visit to the Walker Art Gallery

'Cow Mutations'

One image i was attracted to was Cow mutations by Tim Head. Generated by the image on a supermarket milk carton, it explores a synthetic imagery only tenuously connected to the 'natural' world', uncovering simulated textures and shapes in which, silently, anything can be changed into anything else. His paintings are all based on found things, enlarged and then projected onto canvas. He emphasizes the gap between our materialist 'packaged' society and the natural world on which it depends.