LONDON.- No 20 presents Summa Theologica, a solo exhibition showcasing the work of British artist Augustine Carr and featuring sculpture, photography and film.

Carr, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in June 2016 with a sell-out show, creates work that rejects an emphasis on representation in favour of the process and the practice that lies behind the final creation.

“The work of Augustine Carr crosses several registers, combining painting, sculpture, print, photography, digital scanning and film.

An appropriated book cover is painted over, not so much defaced as embellished, and then it is scanned and printed at a much-enlarged scale. His work ‘Things to Make’ depicts a few trees painted in a free and simple manner. The book it is painted on, referred to in the title, is the classic book for children, and it underlines the childish nature of the painting. But there is more than just childish irreverence at play however, as the enlargement works to both distance us from the emotive painted book and to bring us closer to it through its enlargement. The device is both undone and magnified, as is the emotional intimacy.

His work ‘Summa Theologica’ works in a similar way, but involves a small hand-modelled plasticine sculpture enlarged and reproduced by detailed CNC milling. Again, what appears as a small child-like sketch is enlarged and reproduced with a technical precision that it amplifies the haptic quality of the object and places it in a space of intimate virtuality.

Augustine Carr also makes films, involving his sculpture and shifts of scale. His ‘Investment for Economy’ involves a hearse driving an enlarged life-size reproduction of a set of hand-modelled castle crenellations. The object and the performed action are doubly over-blown and yet with the distance of the film medium, the elegy to what might be an embattled childhood is given poignancy.” ---Dr William Horner RCA PHD

Augustine Carr holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. His photographs were the first prints to be selected for the Royal College of Arts Painting collection, a collection designed to represent significant development in British painting. His work has also been selected for the University of the Arts Collection. Recent group exhibitions include ‘The Beaver Collective’ at Gasworks, ‘notes.app’ at the Dyson Gallery, and ‘Flux’ at Art Dubai. In October 2017, he will take part in ‘Colossus’, curated by After Projects for Frieze Week. Augustine Carr lives and works in London.