Kevin Wayne - Artist & Illustrator
Based in Maidstone, Kent (UK), Kevin is an artist and illustrator producing artwork in a variety of media.
I have always been inspired by objects that draw you in with movement, colour and usually flashing lights. Classic pinball machines, museum dioramas and Victorian miniature theatres are the kind of things that really get me going - sad but true. My artistic heroes are too many to mention, but here is a short list of the absolutely essential (in no particular order) Joseph Cornell, Daniel Clowes, Terry Gilliam, Rene Magritte, Peter Blake, William Heath Robinson and Paul McCarthey.
I try and use a lot of humour in my work, but I attempt to apply it in such a way that it masks something very sad or sinister. Over the last couple of years two overlapping themes have started to develop, one is to do with social awkwardness and the discomfort of human communication. The other explores the idea of mental and physical overload, and the attempt to escape through intricate and sometimes elaborate constructs of the imagination.
Kevin -
Born Gillingham, Kent 1976
2000, MA Fine Art, Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
1998, BA hons, Fine Art, Liverpool Art School
Comfort in Mind, ISP Gallery, Sittingbourne 2003
Climax, Tablet Gallery, Ladbroke Grove, London 2002
Made in Britain London Miles Gallery, London 2010
Group Hug (also curated), Maidstone Library Gallery 2010
Miniscule Oblong Gallery, London 2010
Bentlif Art Prize, Maidstone Museum 2008
Group Exhibition, ISP Gallery, Sittingbourne 2007
Football - Adulation & Exploitation, Prenelle Gallery, Canary Wharf, London 2002
Art 2002, Britart stand, The Business Design Centre, Islington, London 2002
Faith in Fakes, The Place, Letchworth Garden City 2001
Waam!, Kingsland Road Gallery, London 2000
Phusion, Gasworks Gallery, Vauxhall, London 2000
Very Nearly, Never Always, The Dragon, Shoreditch, London 1999
Northern graduates, New Academy Gallery, Fitzrovia, London 1998