Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place (SU4IP)
Lyndon Watkinson
Lyndon Watkinson (1999) is an artist, designer, writer, and musician based in Sheffield, UK. Democratising art and art context through artworks, publications, graphic design, articles, and sound. Creative director and founder of the online arts organisation SU4IP. His work is characterised by a desire for precision, often depicting aesthetics that celebrate and criticise the absurdity of corporatized identity, calling into question the necessity of creating false exteriors when what is not seen is often just as important.
In late 2020, a blog post entitled Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place formed part of the wider inquiry and development of his practice for his bachelor's degree in fine art. As his work matured, he applied this term as a formalisation of his creative endeavours, later abbreviating it to SU4IP, now used as a digital alias and publishing entity.
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Digital Collage, 2024
The offcuts of childlike optimism. A physical rendition of a worn-down, found keychain, interlaced with corrupted space-age set design.
Catering to the imagination of a young audience is a temporary endeavour. Objects once held sacred are swiftly moved through a wasteful ecosystem where, more often than not, they are immured beneath the earth's crust or set ablaze, deprived of the opportunity to inspire future generations.
Thunderball is a celebration of the forgotten wonder of childhood toys. While some remain with us in our thoughts, even fewer remain with us in physical form. Yet, their inadvertent contributions to society will not go ignored, in my attempt to immortalise their image in a digital format.
