Biografia
Through an ongoing investigation into colour and materials my work aims to occupy the space between disciplines by investigating the boundaries and perceptions of painting. I am intrigued by the material properties of paint, creating forms and surfaces which demonstrate both its luxurious nature and aesthetic qualities.
My practice comments on painting by choosing to view it from outside the discipline’s peripheral boundaries. The work explores what painting is and could be by placing itself in reference to the transitional aesthetic of the sixties New York school of painting. By employing techniques that are usually more commonplace in sculpture, I am able to examine the physicality of paint and the language that surrounds the discipline.
The materials I use include resin, fibreglass, wood and found objects which replicate an experience with paint without need for the substance itself to be present.
The work aims to explore ideas of order and chaos, painting and sculpture, avant-garde and kitsch and how these precarious pairings can exist together, through subtle formal arrangement and colourful sensory overloads
Often bringing paint away from the canvas to force it to exist as substance alone, these kaleidoscopic works celebrate the brilliance of colour, through a clear interest in the medium of paint.
