BEXHILL ON SEA.- In this exhibition, Roy Voss has created a series of over 100 collages from found postcards, mainly sent between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s.

To make the collages, Voss cuts out a single word from the back of the postcard and re-inserts it into the image on the front. Combined, the word and the image offer a short, open and ambiguous narrative, shifting perceptions of an everyday image to something entirely different.

Sent through a sense of duty, but with love and a need to communicate and share, the mass-produced cards are of a different era. The artist finds is something melancholic about the brief, blue biro messages on the back, as well as tenderness and an attempt at intimacy; a postcard is both intensely personal and private, but available for any number of people to look at and read. These postcards have been chosen because of the way they allude to paintings through imitating classical compositions; others are more prosaic, but contain details and idiosyncracies that are exaggerated by the printing technologies, embellished colours and deep shadows.

Romantic longing and the elusiveness of authentic experience are evoked --Frieze 2015

This show – and its gentle chorus of voices from the past – manages to ride the line between coherent installation and desirable, individual images. -- This is Tomorrow

Roy Voss is an artist who lives in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Miss, Bronte Parsonage Museum, 2014; Cast, Matt’s Gallery & Diston Grove, 2012. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Modern Art Oxford; Spike Island, Bristol; Baltic 39, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Annely Juda Gallery, the Drawing Room and Whitechapel Gallery, London. His work is included in the following public collections: the British Government Collection, Penguin Books, The Aspen Collection of Contemporary Art, Wordsworth Trust, Arts Council and the Contemporary Arts Society.