The art of Jonathan Meades

Ape Forgets Medication: Treyfs and Artknacks
Londonewcastle Project (28 Redchurch Street, E2), until 23 April

Process, means, method: it was these rather than the results which initially fascinated me. There was an unmistakable exhilaration in discovering that I was not merely learning a new language but that I was creating a language peculiar to myself. Given that it was non-verbal the word ‘language’ is inappropriate. In every instance the words, the capricious titles I have appended to the works (the treyfs and artknacks) came after. Treyf signifies that which is not kosher. Artknack is a neoligism which suggests arts, a knack or facility, a knicknack or cheap bling, arnaque (French for a scam).The titles propose subjects which were not intended, meanings that were not meant.

None of the works are ‘about’ anything other than themselves and their multiple surfaces. They do not represent anything I have seen, anything I have felt, anything I have imagined.