Dominic Watson

Dominic Watson’s works are strikingly unique in their absurdity and depiction of unusual, semi-fictional narratives. Working in film, sculpture, puppetry and performance, he is interested in the fragility and a false sense of what he considers a shared consciousness, a constellation of history and popular visual culture. Through the overlaying of the exaggerated, absurdist perspectives over accepted narratives, be they historical, social or political, Watson reveals the inner-absurdity of that which is familiar. His grotesque papier-mâché sculptures and video works often feature his own, sometimes duplicated, portrait or body, situating himself as a material, both object and subject, of his work. The running theme of Watson’s absurdist pieces is jovial pleasure manifested through pop songs, humour and mockery, while at the centre of it is the continuous process of testing one's beliefs.