LOCAL artist Jack 'Fishdog' Randell is set to open his exhibition, Pharm, tonight at the Fire Station Arts Centre from 6pm.
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The exhibition features Mr Randell's latest collection, which he hopes will get his audience thinking.
Mr Randell has crafted five completely abstract subject matters for Pharm, with no connection whatsoever.
"The viewer can make up their own connections from the subjects," he said.
Described as an open narrative, Mr Randell said it had taken him just six weeks to complete the project.
"I had it fermenting in my mind for a while," he said.
Pharm is an amalgam of pharmaceutical and farm.
Mr Randell said his exhibition was a hybrid, speaking to the blurring of boundaries in the post-digital age.
His new body of studio paintings features five subjects; a kitchen chair, a portrait, a silo in a landscape, Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel and a flattened drink can.
Each subject has been digitally drawn and mechanically transferred to metal, wood and paper.
Each work has then been individually crafted in paint to create a hybrid image employing machine and handmade techniques.
2015 is shaping up to be a memorable one for Mr Randell, who said he was in the process of confirming a trip to London in August.
Hoping to showcase a collaboration project at the Hackney Wicked Festival, Randell said the whole city was vibrant at that time of the year and he had his fingers crossed he would be a part of it.