Substance

Substance (dazzle)razzle
acrylic on canvas
400 × 400mm
2010
The smaller companion piece to Ceremony.
Substance (dazzle)razzle
acrylic on canvas
400 × 400mm
2010
The smaller companion piece to Ceremony.
Ceremony (razzle)
acrylic on canvas
600 × 600mm
2010
One from the archives, an “in-betweener” – one of those works made after one body of work and before the next.
What happens when I make a painting which sits outside of my ideas about the type of work I make? For example, if I believe I only make abstract work, what happens when I make something different?
Do I dismiss this new painting because it’s doesn’t sit within my current (and long held) beliefs about the type of work I make or do I instead expand my notion of what I make, risk undermining what I thought was true, and in turn open up plenty of new unknowns, uncertainty and possibility?
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
300 × 400mm
2019