Chris Horner is a British artist who lives and works in Hampshire. He received his BA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey, UK. He also completed his MA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey in 2018.
Horner’s artwork explores the relationship between artist and material where he transforms readymade, pre used objects into new painted sculptural artworks. He restores life back into an object which was once wanted and appreciated. The experimentation stage in his work enables him to take some kind of control, as he starts to forensically document the surface in a very obsessive way.
The paint which is projected onto the surface creates a journey which is exciting and playful. He wants to find out how materials can function differently when put in an obscure process. Each time he begins a new project he is unsure of the final product. Systems and operations are put in place to give guidance to the making, information is imprinted to the reformed surface by devised algorithms he calls this ‘A Working Unknown Process’. This is because the process reinvents the original materials used, allowing them to become something else, giving a new beginning and purpose as a work of art.
