I love David Batchelor's work ever since I saw his exhibition in 2007 at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh and today I was revisiting it to be inspired by his use of colour.
He is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the use of many brilliant tones and hues using a variety of fluorescent plastic objects - clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children's toys, empty bottles of household products - found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy. I like them and he writes a mean book too check out Chromophobia publisherd by Reaktion.
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