For over a decade Bobby Dowler (b 1983 in London) has collected the paintings that nobody else wants and used them as a starting point to make his own works out from. Pre-existing paintings and their wood supports come in all different shapes, sizes and styles - some have been carefully made, exhibited, sold, cherished, destested, neglected, laughed at, badly damaged and aban- doned on street corners - others have found their way haphazardly and without artists' signatures to flea markets in various countries. Eventually some of these paintings will end up in the works- hop of Bobby Dowler's where, for better or worse, they will meet their fate and be repurposed.

Bobby Dowler deconstructs his materials with his hands, tools and utilises paint, staples and glue, in order to assist the evolution of them into roughly-made ‘painting-objects'. Each painting-on-can- vas gets separated from its original wood-support (which is also later re-used in a wrong way!), re- worked, built up, broken down and partly destroyed, leaving only partially mutilated paintings and somewhat disfigured wood supports.

It is as if Bobby somehow wants to get inside the ‘painting' so that he can turn it inside-out.
Finally, after a protracted struggle (sometimes weeks, months, years pass), something unintentio- nal happens in his workshop and this surprise action helps guide a work towards it's eventual completion.