PAGE 1 sees the gathering together of his most recent collection of work. His method of painting relies on memory, preferring recollection to directly working from source material. As a result of this process viewers of his paintings are confronted by images that seem familiar but sometimes difficult to place, like a half remembered dream.

With Carrick’s art you are presented with only the essential elements, his brush strokes and washes show the intensity of their production. They hover between the edge of destruction in places, while other areas feature concentrated detail.

There is a continuity to his style but not to his themes, each painting conveys a wholly different enquiry. High art and pop culture feature in the work, often side by side. Inspirations in PAGE 1 include Hogarth, Saul Bass and Magritte via The Rolling Stones. Mixing classic and modern sources be it a news story, song or art history reference gives the work its contemporary feel.

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