SNO 160 _Sequence Error

Install shots from my recent exhibition at Sydney Non Objective curated by Ruark Lewis.

This was a great experience for me, all the work was made in my Lismore studio this year and was a direct response to intense heat of this place. Acrylic paint seemed to dry instantly when applied to the surface of a canvas, which was a perfect condition for this one line at a time painting process. The climate here spurred me on, adapting my previous work of Posca on board to acrylic on canvas and into a scale previously unthinkable with the limits of paint pens.

All photos by Sarah Kukathas of Document Photography.

Screensaver

Vector illustration, [1,334 x 750 pixels (326 ppi)]

These new lock-screen and home-screen compositions were made for iPhone 7 due to a recent upgrade from my previous model (iPhone 5C).

This composition took many iterations to arrive at and I worked though various grid arrangements and colour sequences before reaching this point. For the colour I wanted to utilize primarily the additive scale of cyan, magenta and yellow where secondary and tertiary colours emerge through blending.

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_SEQUENCE ERROR

I am excited for my upcoming Solo show at Sydney Non-Objective in their new Rosebury location.

This will be an exhibition of new paintings all made this year in Lismore. The work is a coherent series of sequential paintings, starting with my first work on canvas (pictured) made with this technique, all the way to my most recent iteration.

_SEQUENCE ERROR will focus on my core practice of seriality, and display how I utilize this method to evolve, complicate and refine my work.

Mirror Pool

Acrylic on canvas [101 x 76cm]

An image of no thing. A thing between all categories of things, a visible nothing like hearing silence. A potential something, energy contained but not yet used. Ripples through emptiness, that with time fills the blank surface with colour.

These images first appear in my mind, with eyes closed I continue to see patterns of shifting geometries. I understand these structures as innate. All building is an external mirroring of some kind of internal architecture, and to mirror is to understand.

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Wizz Fizz

Acrylic on canvas [101 x 76cm]

A much larger iteration of the Sequence Error series, I am very happy with the result I have made and feel I am approaching a better understanding of this work. The colour selection and arrangement is becoming closer to what I have previously imagined.

I have learned a lot with this one and am looking forward to further refinement and variation. 

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A mind of its own

Acrylic on canvas [51 x 40cm]

This study is a translation of my Posca work (previously painted on board) to industrial acrylic on canvas, and is the first time I have painted on canvas for a few years.

I have made this transition to allow further variations of colour through the mixing of paints, and using this technique I will also be able to increase the scale of the work.

The use of brushes resulted in more unpredictable moments in the application of each line of colour, distorting the sequence in subtle and fascinating ways.

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