Martin Wilson is an artist that I met at last year's Greenbelt. He also contributed a piece to the Northwood & Northwood Hills stns which used my Stations of the Cross meditations during Holy Week this year.
Martin has one of his pieces in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, which is now open to the public. His work can also be seen in Leicester at Bishop Street Methodist Church in July.
Martin trained as a graphic designer and works is an art director for a large publishing business, but during his free time he is busy creating photographic artworks that tease meaning from the urban jumble.
His work captures words and letters from urban typography, such as road signs, number plates and billboards, or crafts new letter forms from material as unpromising as rubbish and road markings. He then re-appropriates these to spell out unexpected, but often familiar, messages.
His pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film, with the final images appearing only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side on contact sheets. Each work usually takes months to complete, as each word letter or image is obsessively taken in sequence, rather than pasted together after the event. If he makes a mistake or takes a frame out of place he starts the film again from the beginning. His works are all records of real journeys, the visual remnants of hours walking or cycling round town, bringing to life the unheard voices of the city.
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Stevie Wonder - Living For The City.
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