Statement

I have simultaneously a passion and a healthy disrespect for painting. I want to put all my efforts to explore and hopefully push the boundaries of the field of contemporary painting.

While I was graduating from Camberwell I was investigating the possibilities of image transfer, painting and digital 3d modeling. Subject matter focusing on abstracted animal figures.

Overarching process of my work includes the splicing of the following elements:

-the physical readymade (found supports/surfaces, commercial display strategies, building materials, industrial processes, digital printing, cheap accessible mass produced materials)

-painting (history, gesture, landscape, perspective, isometry, flatness, figure, colour field)

-the digital readymade (internet stock imagery; appropriated video game textures, models, environments; easy to use web-based 3d modelling)

The use of the cheap readymade, transfering and democratic 3d modelling is a way of creating friction within established hierarchies and binary constructs: high art/low art, flat/3Dimensional, poor/wealthy, temporary/permanent, meaning/nonsense, and precision/inaccuracy. As well as optimisation: cost per surface, time to produce, etc.

Decisions are often influenced by optimisation: I attempt to manifest my ideas into being the fastest/cheapest/optimal/waste-free way, both in it's procedural/conceptual approach, and the physical manifestation. An approach which paradoxically can complicate the process and make painting more time consuming, or lead to dead ends. Having an end result that is neither/either a success and/nor a failure.

My work focuses on the separation/link between the surface, image and the gesture. Using a particular process, or different variations of it, one can attempt to deny the ego, thus making the work rely more on chance, whilst making it more outward-looking.

Post graduation, my work started to increasingly deal with human figures, awkward inhabitants of a square "surface" they are both painting and embodiment of the concerns that our society is facing today.