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The works in this show are concerned with the relationship between painting and the nature of surfaces. Rather than promoting a singular signature style the work borrows from a variety of tendencies ; hard edge abstraction, found object, concrete art, colour field and lyrical abstraction. These forms, divested of the rhetoric which valorised them as a vehicle for profound truths, have been recyled and reassembled to suggest a different type of representation. Not representation in a conventional literal sense, but a mobilising of elemental painterly forms - circle, square, surface, paint and colour to build a rudimentary visual language which refers to ideas outside of itself, by nomination, whilst maintaining a sense of autonomy - A realisation that the act of making art is in itself an act of representing. What is common in the work is a primary concern for and response to the objectness or physicality of the materials used, be it the type of paint and colouring or the shape and surface of the support . Individual works have as a foundation the structuring principles of geometry, pattern and colour systems. The pattern operates as the matrix by which the work proceeds. The viewer is
encouraged to engage with the interplay between object as something
made/found and object as image (objects exist as ideas/images in
the mind before achieving a tangible dimensional form). What is
emphasised is an interraction based on disruption rather than a
seamless homogenity. The placement of works within the gallery arise
from the shifting of pieces around the studio. Small scale panels
operate as “units” of a series which are forced into
an unexpected dysfunctional dialogue with other panels or painted
objects. These juxtapositions are motivated by a search for balance.
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