Alex Rennie

I began by looking at old, new and progressing  architecture living side by side but I soon started focusing on the hoardings that form the barriers between them. I made a series of large paintings of hoardings at the ‘Shard’ building site at London Bridge with the intention of recreating a physical partition that when taken out of its environment becomes a permanent version of a temporary object that represents a moment of change. I have included different elements that appear on the hoardings; fluorescent red lights, aspirational images of the city, the dust and mud generated by the toil behind, rainwater, reflections, wear and graffiti. Under each one is a painted red and white construction timber, ubiquitous at building sites across the country, these have become the basis of my latest project.