Within my work I am interested in the systems and meaning structures that inform our understanding of the world. Although my work is based within an interest in Philosophy and Science I use these discourses as a basis for my own ideologies, allowing me to explore the hierarchies of information through a much more idiosyncratic point of view.

In my work, the Meta-narratives of Science, Philosophy and Art become relics of universal truth. While modernism may act as a giant arrow pointing to the attainment of absolute truth, post-modernism fractures this linearity leaving truth and meaning in a much more de-centred position. Through a reflexive practise I intend my work to question the centre of truth itself, appropriating and manipulating objects so that they, in some cases literally bend back on themselves; showing their position within the meaning structure of the world which creates them.

Although there is a seriousness in my artistic endeavours, I intend to show an absurdness in the individuals attempt to produce truth and meaning, and it is the contradictions between ideas of the centred self and the de-centred world where I would like my work to exist.

Sam Knowles Graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2009. Since graduating he has won 1st Prize at the Pienkow Residency in Poland. Recent shows include Future Map 2009, thecentre:mk Annual Painting Prize and X Artworks in a Straight Line (Seeking the Perfect Sphere), Crisp London Los Angles. He has recently been selected for New Contemporaries 2010, and will be showing work in the Royal Society with the touring exhibition Beyond Ourselves early next year.

Born 1983 in London, UK

EDUCATION

2000 − 01 Merton Technical College

2001 − 02 NESCOT College of Technology

2005 − 06 Foundation Diploma, Kingston University London

2006 − 09 BA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art