Bob Bicknell-Knight (UK/EE, b. 1996) holds a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, and is currently following an MA programme in Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Throughout his work, Bicknell-Knight explores ideas of time, control, and degradation through the lens of video games. He has held solo exhibitions in London, Berlin, Klaipėda, Kassel, Brno, Paris and Copenhagen, and has featured in group exhibitions around the world.
Bicknell-Knight’s ongoing Altars series combines hybrid paintings of clocks from different games. Starting life as digital photographs, the images are edited before being printed onto canvas, stretched, and painted over with acrylic paint – pulling the digital image into physical terrain. For the artist, the symbol of the frozen clocks is a means to examine how time in videogames is often fabricated and stretched. As a final step, the works are displayed within elaborate frames that have been digitally modelled, 3D printed and covered in layers of concrete. The frames reference ideas of faith, power and control, functioning as altars to time itself.
