Once Upon a Mouse...

Born from fragmented childhood dreams, some would say nightmares, the dismembered forms of characters animated on the paper. Watching these characters as a child via a 15-inch black and white television with no pause, rewind or stop glued to the screen not wanting to miss a second to the point of hypnotic euphoria. Burnt in time as film stills in the mind like a strange flashback or distant memory through not-so rose-tinted glasses. The bliss and the panic, the filth and the fury of the marks filled with angst with each stroke made giving that twisted familiarity which you somehow feel comfortable with, but you don’t know why.

James-Lee Duffy creates with an exuberant and explosive style, inspired by cartoon characters and fragmented childhood memories. His seemingly frenzied technique involves deliberate markings, mixing unorthodox skills and materials, bold gestures, rapid paint spattering and animated unconventional forms, which result in humorous, fleetingly familiar and sinister imagery.