Maurice Caplice
BA in Fine Art

Address:
25 Queen Street, Clonmel,
Co. Tipperary, Ireland

E-mail:
caplice.maurice@gmail.com

Tel:
+353 864008512

Background:
Graduated from National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland in 2002. Previous exhibitions include:

'Absolute Secret' R.H.A. Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, 1999

'Sensationless', Thomas St.(Vicar St.), Dublin 8, Ireland, 2000

Dublin Civic Offices 'Odyssey 2001', Ireland

'Shoplifter' Ilac Center, Dublin, Ireland, 2001

N.C.A.D. Degree Show Thomas St. Dublin 8, Ireland, 2002

'Art and Action' Rubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland, 2003

'Lost and Found', Rom For Kunst, Oslo, Norway 2003.

Cyprus College of Art, post grad exhibition, Lempa, Cyprus 2005.

Statement:
My practise strives to highlight the extent of tribalness in our social structure. Yuppie, culshie, knacker, hippie, krusty, inner-city scumbag.

These are all words, people, insults, fabrications, and exaggerations.To deal with something on the borderline you must approach it on the border. Hence the lack of restrictions on the materials used.

In a disposable society, the disposed is my natural resource. The found object and the painted mark, both support each other in the task of becoming finished work. Characters unwilling to remain painted or glued, found or drawn.

The work has never meant to be a sermon from a pulpit, more like the naturalists night vision on an unsuspecting gazelle.

Statement from the Cyprus work:

Click on the image below for the artist's own presentation (pdf) on the Cyprus work: