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Melbourne artist, John Knap, studied Graphic Design then completed a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Art teaching. John has continued to exhibit his own work while teaching art for the past 8 years. His first solo exhibition, 'Fragments of Class' in August 2000, was a sell-out and featured large acrylic works using painted layers of iconic black & white images and vibrant primary colours. Since then John has had many successful exhibitions, featuring a variety of mixed media. As he explains "I've taken hundreds of individual pieces of opulent wallpaper and woven them, before covering with shellac to give them the aged look of richly woven, historic tapestries". Faces are also a prominent feature of John's narrative. Using them as a base image, he then applies colour and lavish wallpaper, which are placed to reveal facets of the face below. Finally, layers of shellac are added to give the appearance of old-fashioned hoarding. Part of John's current body of work is to use colour photocopies to create small, iconic images of faces. Some of these are famous, some everyday and others religious. They have a distortion to them that make them incredibly interesting while layers of shellac add more depth. John does private commissions while continuing to produce work for his next exhibition.
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