ABOUT

Context sits at the centre of this body of work, with the lack of context being key. These paintings incorporate elements of both abstraction and figuration, with forms appearing and disappearing as the painting is discovered. The work is autobiographic, referencing personal experiences with the outside world, but through the painting process interactions and forms are recontextualized and defamiliarized. The paintings take on new implied narratives and atmospheres, losing and gaining new meaning. These new meanings are understood through the titling of each works, which suggests a narrative for each painting, whilst still allowing space for interpretation.

 

These paintings engage with the materiality of paint, exposing all layers of the painting’s surface. With this, the painting process becomes a space for play. Overlapping forms and additions of bright colour create a pictorial language which produces new ambiguous spaces, both regarding spatial ambiguity and what is presented to the viewer. Quick gestural marks imply chaos and infer a subtle sense of possibility, ranging in intensity between the paintings. Gesture and mark making show the progression of the paintings, from a depiction of personal physical and psychological spaces to something altogether different. Procedures of application and cancellation act as physical thinking process, and from this emerges works which are made from and perpetuate misunderstanding, both inviting and yet resisting decoding.