Tim Craker - "Untitled"

A stencil leaves the trace of its presence as a design transferred to another surface. Here I have used orange plastic safety-fencing as a stencil to cover my car-cover with an all-over, but discontinuous, pattern.

The plastic fencing, usually seen as a highly-visible protective barrier around building sites and by the side of the road – and here, paradoxically absent - lends its pattern of holes to create a monstrous gingham tablecloth, a camouflage blanket for a cloud-dotted sky, and a symbolic representation of the city grid…. 

Biographical statement

Tim Craker is a Melbourne painter, sculptor and installation-artist, living in Seddon.

Following an Honours Degree in Fine Art from RMIT (graduating in 1993) he has exhibited extensively in Melbourne in both group and solo shows. Solo exhibitions have included Out of Print at Nellie Castan Gallery in 2004,  Transcript at Monash University’s Gippsland campus Switchback Gallery in 2005 and most recently Take(n) Away at the Substation, Newport in 2009.

While previous work was based on the meaning and appearance of language and text, an artist’s residency in Malaysia in 2006 saw a significant change in direction in Tim Craker’s work, in both subject matter and materials. The residency led directly to the exhibition dot-net-dot-my in Melbourne in 2007, and to a touring exhibition dot-net-dot-au in Malaysia and Singapore in 2008 (both exhibitions held jointly with Melbourne artist Louise Saxton.)

Tim is represented by Gallery 101 Melbourne.