Swan Song - 4 Sizes
Location: Outside of Palm Springs, California
"Shot on location just outside of Palm Springs, this is one of the more playful and constructed pieces in the Synthetica series. Elements from different places - a faded Hollywood mural I found inside a local primary school, a roadside basketball court, a desert track - are brought together into an imagined scene. The lone figure walking into the distance is my Dad - which gives the image an extra personal resonance beneath its more surreal surface. It’s a piece about illusion, staging, and departure with a bit of poignancy, and for me, one of the more cinematic images I’ve made." - George Byrne
Byrne creates large scale photographs that depict architectural surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Borrowing from the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, he also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban everyday.
All works by the artist are printed with a slim white photo-paper border and framed in white with plexiglass.