Marie Fleming, “Baxter²: any choice works 1965-70”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1982, page 12
Alexander Alberro, “Interview with Iain Baxter&”, “IAIN BAXTER& Works 1958-2011”, ed. David Moos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2011, page 19
By the 1960s, Iain Baxter& was using plastic in his works. In an interview with Alexander Alberro, Baxter& discusses the medium: “There were many, many plastic containers in supermarkets, and plastic furniture and all kinds of plastic commodities everywhere. So I decided to work with the common objects of my own time, which were mostly made of plastic. Plastic became my medium.” There is a celebration of the ordinary, both “the everyday object and the common experience” in Baxter&'s work. In the plastic vacuum-forms, the plastic “transforms, intensifies, and yet embalms these items of daily life, presenting them both as artefacts and as a commercial display.”
