minimalist grid drawing on recycled pulp 

Untitled (I am cause + effect)

Untitled (daiquiri)

marker drawing collaged on up-cycled canvas

Untitled (wrapped) 

grid biro drawing on canvas mounted on up-cycled honeycomb cardboard

Wrapped

Out-of-the-frame

This project is a solo exhibition in London which has been postponed due to the Coronavirus. It was meant to open nearly June but will now have to wait until autumn, hopefully.

The exhibition title  ‘Essentially Grey’ is an exploration of how our understandings of colour or in this case the absence of colour abstract an idea. Colours change according to light but what the retina sees is not necessarily what the brain translates into our k knowledge of colour.

Colour , if used at all are monochrome colours such as grey, black, ghostly whites, the occasional pastel pink, blue, orange or red. The use of non-colours which kindle neither emotions nor desires allows to focus on the work without distracting from the obsessively drawn lines in an attempt to blur the boundaries between drawing, sculpture and installation.

When colour is used it is a deliberate choice to tear the viewer’s emotional response.The drawing of tightly packed, layered lines with a graphite pencil is central to my practice in both the process and metaphysical expression of an idea.    

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