FINE ART PRACTICE
Margins, edges and perimeters preserve the fragile extremities of a fluid’s trace on a surface. When ‘surface’ is considered as a volume or substrate, gravity extends the fluid trace three-dimensionally; a ‘margin’ can become an object.
In this series of objects, a liquid penetrates a porous substrate and coalesces. The substrate, which is later dissolved away, operates as a temporary mould. Even slight changes to the viscosity of the liquid result in quite different outcomes.
Digital image on perspex 1200x1200 $1800
Digital image on perspex 1200x1200 $1800
Digital image on perspex 1200x900 $1800
In this series of paintings, the utilitarian gesture of undercoating, in this case with a transparent 'binder', is detected at a crucial moment in its drying process. Through brushings of dry pigment, like dusting for fingerprints or hidden evidence, inconsistencies and randomness within an apparently pure surface are revealed.
Powder pigment, matte medium on canvas 1300x1000 $3000
Powder pigment, gloss medium on board 1300x1000 $3000
Powder pigment/matte medium on board 1300x1000 $3000 SOLD
Pigment powder, graphite, gloss medium on board 1300x1000 $3000 SOLD
Pigment powder. gloss medium on board 1300x1000 $3000
Powder pigment, matte medium on paper
320 x 260 (unframed) $900
Opalescent powder pigment, matte medium on paper
320 x 260 (unframed) $900
Powder pigments, matte medium on paper
655 x 430 framed $1500
Powder pigments, gloss medium on paper
655 x 430 framed $1500
Powder pigments, gloss medium on paper
655 x 430 framed $1500
Powder pigment, graphite, gloss medium on paper
320 x 260 (unframed) $900
This series of work explores the way a solvent erodes and combines with a substrate before coalescing. The remaining substrate, which is later dissolved away, operates as transient, transmutable mould. The resulting objects are fine skeletal networks that play with scale and origin, flipping between organic and synthetic.
Digital image on perspex 1200x1200 $1800
Digital image on perspex 1200x1200 $1800
Digital image on perspex 1200x1200 $1800
Digital image on perspex 900x1200 $1800
My fascination with paint began with its inherent expressive potential, its metamorphosis from physical matter into allusion to something more than itself.
Oil, pastel, gloss medium on board 1000x1300 $3000
These drawings are pictorial constructions that expand sensibilities manifested in the objects.
A key concern with the objects, photos and paintings is that of the object/space and figure/ground relationship. This relationship becomes a matter of content too; it speaks of the integrity of separate objects and how they hold their own in space, be it real or imagined.
Graphite and gesso on board 1300x1000 $3000 SOLD
Graphite and gouache on paper 400x300 $300
Pencil on paper 400x300 $300
Pencil on paper 400x300 $300
Graphite and gouache on paper 400x300 $300
Pencil, gouache on paper 400x300 $300
Pencil, gouache on paper 230x300 $500
PENCIL ON PAPER 250 X 250 $500
Pencil on paper 140x90 $300
Pencil on paper 140x90 $300
Pencil on paper 140x90 $300
Pencil on paper 140x90 $300
Graphite, silver pigment on paper 180 x 120 $100 SOLD
Charcoal, graphite, wax on paper 180 x 180 $100 SOLD
Pastel, pigment, graphite on paper 180 x 180 $100 SOLD
Pastel, pearlised pigment, graphite on paper 180 x 130 $100 SOLD
Oil, pearlised pigment, graphite on paper 180 x 130 $100 SOLD
In these works I reclaim gestural use of paint, and combine two key concerns present in my process based work; the vulnerability of separate objects as they hold their own in space, real or imagined, and the unstable nature of perceptual space itself. Inheriting, in terms of gesture, a somewhat perfunctory feel from the process driven work, these works 'figure' and 'ground' are teased away from their respective functions - figures dissolve, flatten, and slip behind their grounds; stretched thinly they become grounds themselves. Grounds disintegrate, float free as new figures, or re-establish themselves within figures. The two roles become transmutable; the relationship becomes precarious.
Gouache, pastel, ink on paper
595 x 495 framed $1500
Gouache, ink, pastel on paper
595 x 495 framed $1500
SOLD
Ink, gouache on paper
420 x 420 framed $750
SOLD
Indian ink, gouache on paper
420 x 420 framed $750
Ink, gold leaf on paper
655 x 430 framed $1500
Gouache, pastel, gold leaf on film 400 x 280 $700 SOLD
Ink, gouache on film
400 x 280 $700
SOLD
Ink, gouache on paper
655 x 430 framed $1500
SOLD
Graphite, gesso, gouache,gold leaf on paper
Paper size 620 x 400, work margin 320 x 260 $700
SOLD
Ink, gouache, pastel on paper
Paper size 620 x 400, work margin 320 x 260 $600
Pastel, crayon on gouache
400 x 290, work margin 270 x 200 $600 SOLD
Acrylic, pastel on paper
Paper size 400 x 290, work margin 240 x 200 $600
Oil, powder pigment on paper
595 x 495 framed $1500
Ink, oil, metallic gouache on paper
595 x 495 framed $1500
SOLD
OIl on paper
300 x 220 $800
Oil on paper 300 x 220 $800
In some ways the mind works similarly when sketching as it does while dreaming; it links threads and concepts from everyday interactions into unexpected and often implausible scenarios.
Ballpoint
140 x 90 $100
Ballpoint, pencil, nail varnish, eye-shadow
140 x 90 $100
Pencil, eraser
140 x 90 $100
pencil, gel pen, gouache, pastel
140 x 90 $100
Pencil, gouache
140 x 90 $100
Ballpoint, nail varnish
140 x 90 $100
Pencil
140 x 90 $100
Pencil
140 x 90 $100
Pencil
140 x 90 $100
Gouache, ink, pastel
140 x 90 $100
Pastel, powder pigment, pencil
140 x 90 $100
Pastel, gouache, coloured ink
140 x 90 $100
Gouache, pencil, silver leaf
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Pencil, gesso, gouache
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Ink, pencil, gouache, pigment powder
140 x 90 $100
Gouache, ink, pencil, erasure
140 x 90 $100
Pastel, pigment powder, pencil
140 x 90 $100
Iridescent pastel, coloured ink
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Pastel, ink, gouache
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Gouache, pencil, gold leaf
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Watercolour, pencil
140 x 90 $100
Pencil, coloured pencil
140 x 90 $100
Graphite, crayon, gouache
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Wax medium, graphite powder
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Pastel, coloured pencil, gold leaf
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
Oil, pearl powder pigment
140 x 90 $100 SOLD
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