Jack Marshall, Low Battery

Bloke4, 2015, acrylic on paper, 15 x 21 cm

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Jack Marshall, Low Battery

South east London artist Jack Marshall scrawls to the sound of the city with a pleasing lack of coherence...

The buzz of the city is Jack Marshall’s muse. The south east London artist drawing on the humdrum haze of urban life — petty vandalism; the drone of city living that you only notice when you escape to the silence of the countryside; the dizziness of visuals flooding your retinas … advertising, building, people.

Inspired by American cartoonists Gary Panter and Charles Burns, Marshall’s cartoon figures are far from their traditionalist style — his are distorted, jarred, rarely coming into view as complete, coherent drawings — they embody the muddled disorientation of that buzz of city life, they are layered as hastily, as recklessly, as impulsively as the layers of urban space.

Low Battery runs at Holborn’s Display Gallery until 29 October.

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