Landscape with Absented Figures
Richard Skelton

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Landscapes with Absented Figures is a highly limited, large format publication of new artworks by Richard Skelton. It comprises a series of eight collages beautifully reproduced on uncoated paper and accompanied by gnomic fragments of text adapted from various sources, including Ruskin, Edmonds and Thomas.

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‘Man’s body was born to die. He was not
created to live on this earth for ever.’

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The work itself explores a poetics of erasure, of seeing and not seeing, in which the titular ‘figures’ are both removed and augmented; transformed into something other.

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‘His body becomes affected by the
conjunction of certain minerals.’

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