work explores contemporary and historical notions of abstraction. Composition is developed through collage and layering, growing in scale and depth into expressive canvases, providing a stage for three-dimensional shapes that allude to painterly brushstroke and sculptural form at once. Whilst formalist in nature, the resultant paintings’ titles and manner of execution allow notions of reference and recollection to provide the viewer with an entry point to the work; the experiential effect of gesture and colour, interplaying with shadows cast, to imbue the work with emotional content.
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Painting After Art is Dead 