About

Born in Libya, A.G. Moffet spent his early childhood in Gibraltar before moving to school in England. He studied photography, art, and philosophy subsequently spending several years in the Outer Hebrides and London, and then moving to Switzerland.

At the age of five in Gibraltar, on a tennis court, holding a camera, a box Brownie or its equivalent.

A little piece of magic, because when you looked into the small glass window you could see an image, part of a wider picture. The magic never left and is still there; what the camera does, it creates a world, it stills life.

Still Life. The work of A.G. Moffet is an invitation to quietly engage. There is a resistance in the work to the frenetic pace of existence. A.G Moffet works with a variety of materials and approaches; a core component is informed by Michael Thompson’s Rubbish Theory. So, decay, waste, recycling, and questions of value are key elements.

What happens when a whole becomes a series of parts, and those parts are then remade into a different type of whole? We are always looking for a story to tell, we need to make sense of those pieces of our own lives, so we reconstruct, taking the disparate elements and sticking them back together. We are perhaps looking at a whole, which is in fact a montage of all those pieces and parts.

A.G. Moffet has Masters degrees in Philosophy and Drawing and lives and works in Switzerland.

For more details on the artist’s exhibition history, click here.