Pure Taste Indicator - Artist Page

The Artist s work derives from his experiences at Barclays Capital Markets at the height of the Thatcher era. Witnessing products and services that conflicted with his own value structure, highlighted by the ethical influence that multinationals contribute to society, powerful enough to cross moral and geographical boundaries, in the pursuit of purely profit. Baker’s pained and detached work meditates on our attempts to understand the shifting ethical constraints of human life through economic bench-marking and corporate governance. The sadness and tragedy in this work is apparent and is reflected in man’s economic success laying the foundations for his own destruction. Through a critical engagement with his own morals and that of multinational corporations he confronts fundamental questions of where humanity stands in relation to its environment. Baker, 53, was born and works in London and Penzance. He has exhibited consistently since leaving school at seventeen. He has viewed all his experiences as a creative process to be used directly or indirectly in the visual arts. He works within a mixed media format of installation, conceptual, film, photography, moving image, performance, fabric, paint, social media, clay, paper, copper, plastics and ink.