Bio:
I am developing a practice of understanding place through specific signifiers of location. This has manifested recently with enlarged minimalist studies of things such as tenement windows in Glasgow or the Lüftlmalerei (traditional fake painted ornamentation) on farmhouses in Austria. Through the abstraction and recontextualisation of these niche representations of place, I make paintings that adopt a space that is sculptural and found-object-like. The value of the work is intended to be drawn from the pathways of thought and process, the narrative is left intentionally ambiguous. As an example, my recent painting 'Beginning Ending' directly borrows from a piece of public art by Rabiya Choudhry on the pavement in Pollokshields near the Tramway gallery that I would repeatedly see coming home from from a day job. I began to interpret this as some reflection of my stage in life and felt that the nonsensical nature of the phrase, it says 'Beginning Ending' on both ends of the path so in either direction it leads nowhere. The image was then painted on pink curtain lining and old flatmate had. As well as exploring a niche sentimental connection I had with this path, this work, and others ask questions about how our understanding of places comes from an abstracted communication with others.
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I am developing a practice of understanding place through specific signifiers of location. This has manifested recently with enlarged minimalist studies of things such as tenement windows in Glasgow or the Lüftlmalerei (traditional fake painted ornamentation) on farmhouses in Austria. Through the abstraction and recontextualisation of these niche representations of place, I make paintings that adopt a space that is sculptural and found-object-like. The value of the work is intended to be drawn from the pathways of thought and process, the narrative is left intentionally ambiguous. As an example, my recent painting 'Beginning Ending' directly borrows from a piece of public art by Rabiya Choudhry on the pavement in Pollokshields near the Tramway gallery that I would repeatedly see coming home from from a day job. I began to interpret this as some reflection of my stage in life and felt that the nonsensical nature of the phrase, it says 'Beginning Ending' on both ends of the path so in either direction it leads nowhere. The image was then painted on pink curtain lining and old flatmate had. As well as exploring a niche sentimental connection I had with this path, this work, and others ask questions about how our understanding of places comes from an abstracted communication with others.
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