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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 35 W x 25 H x 0.1 D in
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Overlayed meandering lines in translucent glazes of stencilled colour. Oil on thirty five wood panels which can be continuously reconfigured.The translucency of each colour creates secondary and tertiary colours as result. Any one layer may be resolved but not all. Inspired by the sliding '8 puzzle'. The '8 puzzle' was invented in the late nineteenth century at a time when popular preoccupations were more concerned with the spiritual and esoteric. As such it represents the early popularising of gamification and computational logic in the public imagination. The sortation of this simple grid has much in common with the visual and interactive nature of modern app design and the idea that through continuous sorting and filtering of images, products, potential partners etc we can attain some form of fulfilment. Favourable outcomes are seemingly made inevitable by the belief that measurable, rational methods are the only reliable means to achieve them. By layering numerous competing and incompatible images, patterns, symbols etc within these pieces it is impossible to arrive at a wholly coherent outcome. Conversely some elements of the work may be unavoidable regardless of configuration, reflecting a sense of futility and inevitability. Each of these pieces is shipped with hanging strips so they are ready for installation and endless rehanging afterwards to explore their many permutations.
Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:35 W x 25 H x 0.1 D in
Number of Panels:24
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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I've explored many subjects over my thirty year practice but my current focus centres around multi-panelled pieces inspired by the mechanics of slide puzzles. In these palimpsest works, I apply multiple layers of images, marks and patterns so that they occupy the same composition but in different states, allowing images and motifs to undergo a transformative process between each layer. This method becomes a metaphor for exploring the intricacies of incompatibility or inevitability and can be disconcertingly jarring or consistently reaffirming dependent upon the work. The deliberate scattering and breaking of images, motifs and symbols allows me to explore many different ideas within a single compositional style and is, for me as an artist, a breakthrough in addressing the disorder and confusion I see in myself and the world around me. Alongside the multi-panelled pieces, I engage in the abstraction of complex subjects in my paintings. By deliberately introducing complexity and then allowing it to evolve into abstraction through the reductive process of painting, I seek to evoke pareidolic reactions from viewers — a reminder of our innate human tendency to find meaning in the seemingly abstract and unfamiliar.
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