The oscillation between abstraction and representation energises my practice. Rather than privileging one over the other, synthesising both modes explores ideas of hybridity in my work. These works attempt to investigate the context of 'digitality' and its incursion on the analogue realm of painting. I’m motivated by the potential for painting to absorb technological innovations that would supposedly usurp its historical function. Elements of abstraction are used in the work to optically destabilise space and form. Motifs of portals, transparent layers and graduated light reveal the technology in our everyday lives. I use photographic references to inform narratives of personal experience and individual perspectives. These methods of painting are a response to existing in the liminal spaces of the technologically infinite, our digital footprints, the ever present pixel and its constant presence to the human subject. I hope these works evoke to you a sense of "incessant fusion and separation, isolation and metamorphosis" (Smith, 2006) that exists when we are complicit in allowing technology into the most intimate moments of life.

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SUBLIME LIGHT NOW!, 2021  

acrylic, oil on wooden board, LED fan  

505 x 405 x 20 mm

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EVERYDAY, PLAYED ONCE ON REPEAT, 2021  

synthetic polymer on wood  

400 x 300 x 20 mm

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BUT IN PARADISE, THERE IS NO DESTINATION, 2021  

painting installation, oil on wood, LED fan  

1260 x 655 x 20 mm

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INFINITE LOOP/030, 2021  

scrylic on board  

595 x 49.5 x 23 mm

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METAMORPHOSIS, MOTHERBOARD, 2021

oil on wood  

695 x 495 x 23 mm

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THERE, THE THRESHOLD, 2021  

crylic on canvas  

1120 x 100 x 20 mm

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I LOOKED TOO LONG, 2021  

acrylic on wood, LED fan  

505 x 405 x 20 mm

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