The Cancan Relief
Oil and superglue on canvas on hardback book cover
30.1 x 17.9 cm
2024
Exit strategies
Oil and superglue on canvas on hardback book covers
14.1 x 26.2 cm
2024
Paradise theories
Oil, paper and canvas on hardback book cover
20.7 x 20.8 cm
2024
My current work uses cut-up fragments of painted canvas, repurposed through sticking their non-painted side with superglue onto wet oil paint. Leaving them to dry and then ripping them off creates a pixellated, lo-fi, distressed print, which I then assemble with other pieces in order to create and find novel visual combinations.
The project was inspired by and took its working title ‘Construction Site’ from Walter Benjamin’s writing One-Way Street (1928), in which he describes how children ‘bring together, in the artefact produced in play, materials of widely differing kinds in a new, intuitive relationship.’ To him, ‘children are particularly fond of haunting any site where things are being visibly worked upon. [...] In waste products they recognise the face that the world of things turns directly and solely to them’. (Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street, 1928. London: Verso, 52).
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Education
2011-2015 BA Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish), University of Cambridge. First.
2021-2022 UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, MET College, Brighton.
2022-present BA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton.
Group exhibitions
February 2024. By Any Other Name. Second year BA Fine Art Painting Exhibition, University of Brighton.
July 2024. Future Stars, The Holy Art Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Forthcoming exhibitions
August 2024. Newhaven Open Call. Newhaven Art Space, Newhaven, UK.
September 2024. The Private Art and Pasta Club. Café Rust, Hove, UK.