By: BEAUCHAMP, Paul (1948-)

Acq. Number: 730

Dimensions: 81 x 102 cm each

Artwork_Medium: 3 C-type photographic prints

Purchased: 2003

Buyer: BALA, Iwan

Location: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales National Museum Cardiff

Town: Cardiff

Content: Iwan Bala:Paul Beauchamp is the only artist who has a work in the collection previously (CASW 425) - but his work has taken a significant change of direction. Making the lens the means of achieving images does not make these images into 'photographs' in the ordinary sense; they are very much to do with the forms and structures of his earlier drawings, but also ironic in their 'painterly' qualities. These three C-type prints, taken over a period of years, are of a cafe on Rover way, an industrial hinterland of Cardiff, but it could be Nebraska, it could be Mexico, anywhere, anytime. They have a beauty common to all his images, but it is difficult to work out why. They are not conventional or sentimental.