My current work acknowledges and is influenced by my feelings about the moment we are living through: one surfeited with stories — movies on demand, box sets, games, the curation of personal narratives on social media; one in which we see the triumph of story over empirical discourse.

I make drawings — graphite on paper, the subject matter of which is found through a process of mark-making; these are in a sense ‘psychic documents’, comparable perhaps to Surrealist automatic drawing, although the action of subconscious engagement frequently yields a relationship with the real world context.

Meanwhile my paintings — made with acrylics and/or oils — are concerned with the resonances between traditional story telling and populist tropes of the current political conversation. The paintings are usually built from a highly fluid sequence of ‘accidental’ manoeuvres.

Users of Instagram may also have come across  the political cartoons I post as a near-daily output @bruce_works15.