Drawing an emphasis on process

Its taken a while to get past the last show but the next series of works are coming along and they present my art practice in its current direction. Which is briefly outlined in the following passage.

Through the viewed experience and considered through indices of the very materials that form the physical construct of the artwork. My art practice continues to engage a dialogue where the actual material can be a record to its development through the process of making. Further to explore making artworks without the finite distinctions of a set or fixed resolved artwork rather a continuum of projects that present artworks as variables to a process. A process examined intuitively through the unpredictability and chance elements of the materials I use to make my artworks. This I hope to achieve through the simple use of material, a reductive format and duration, qualities that set the actual artwork through the impermanence of its setting and the vulnerability of it's material form.

I prefer my artwork to be considered as a process of thought and temporal experience rather than solid object.

The following are a few example images of the current body of work shown in progress which I would like to open as the next studio show in about a months time. The title of this show I am working on is MARKING TIME.

In forethought these preliminary works show how the geometric abstract is now a feature to a body of work rather than a dominant factor. It also highlights how the geometric aspect has become reflexive to a construct of space and time, through a modern environment whilst directing the viewers attentions to material process.


The use of adhesive tape mimics and further directs a discourse that questions the painted mark, the adhesive tape creates a volume, reveals the act of making and represents a mass produced generic product into an art context which for me is the most interesting aspect of my work and one that I direct my practice toward.