Peter Atkin’s latest exhibition plays with memory and visual cues. For the works, he takes white painted redundant, obsolete logos from the early 1970s and floats them over a faded yellow canvas, juxtaposing old and new, forgotten and remembered. The logos are an important part of Atkins work as he sees them, “as emotional triggers… they have the capacity to evoke memory, nostalgia and a shared history of past experience… they are beautiful forgotten things, gentle reminder of who we were and where we have come from – they are signposts from the past leading us into the future.”
Martin Browne Contemporary
Until 13 September, 2015
Sydney
Obsolete Sunburst Logos, c1970s, acrylic on used tarpaulin, 120 x 120cm
Courtesy the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary
