In these works the fundamental alchemical nature of art making is crudely explicit.
The artist is involved in a constant process of de-constructing and re-constructing the medium alone, making it into the matter. In this process, painting is treated as an object, and the predominantly used medium is canvas and stretcher – the two main components from which the paintings are made. Immense enthusiasm for engaging with its physical side is articulated in the excavation into the materials and exploration of the nature and role of painting in contemporary culture.
The work on display is recycled from rejected material, unused and unprimed canvas or unwanted paintings sourced from the studio or around the college. The rejected material becomes the found material for the methamorphosis transforming it back to life in new shapes and forms. The unwanted findings are stripped bare and undergo a transformation where for example canvas is separated from the stretcher on which it was previously found. Once alienated, they are cut into different pieces and then put together again. Before reassembling the deconstructed, fragments are moved around the studio and placed in different positions being carefully observed in order to find a way in which this process of their transformation can be achieved best. New relationships are created between the elements during the constant dialogue they carry inside a work and the dialogue between one work and the other. The viewer is encouraged to step in the middle of it and add to it. The works still carry the nature of its neglected ancestors, depending on where they have been placed in the space, whereas some appear as they are responding in their own organic and chaotic way, growing and expanding from the ground or ceiling while others are confined and bound by their space seeming to be forced upon it.
Finally I hope that all the works capture these experiments in a state of flux, open for narratives and with its screws, staples or nails painfuly sticking out, create an enviroment that is a reminder of art in making.