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Ashley Bickerton’s vision is often that of a

blighted paradise, a profusion of tropical decay.

The heads on the five sages sprout exotic

flowers and rant obscenities suggesting a state

of delusional paranoia.

Since the artist’s move from New York to Bali

in 1993 he has cast himself in the role of the

cultural castaway, shipwrecked in a perfectly

groomed tourist hell – his paintings like surreal

postcards home. (Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, 2002)