My paintings are essentially concerned with painting, especially the act of painting, the event, as much as the result. Using... Read More
My paintings are essentially concerned with painting, especially the act of painting, the event, as much as the result. Using repetition as a process, the paintings raise questions of originality and authorship, while further exploring notions of individuality, collectiveness, time, memory and the unique qualities of experience.
The first canvas is painted as a direct response to the original subject whereas the second is painted from the first; a painting of painting. There is no intent to copy, rather the second follows the marks, colours and gestures of the first with little consideration given to any pictorial imagery. The brush strokes are loose, occasionally clumsy, emphasising the materiality of the painting over any illusionistic intent. A new painting is created, equally as original as the first.
The original subjects, cropped details appropriated from historic and lesser-known paintings, are transferred through the repeat. Within each painting the canvases exist in relation to each other, with all external subjectivity effectively abandoned. The image becomes an inevitable by-product of the painting, but it remains.
The paintings are simultaneously representational and abstract. They are objects and images, both similar and different, and exist in celebration of such contradictions and paradoxes.
