ELUSIVE GEOMETRIES
My studio practice is focussed exclusively on paint; I make paintings about painting – its histories and possibilities. A fascination with the painted surface, and what can happen in that created space, is a clear thread across my career, from art school in Thailand, through to postgraduate training in Manchester. In recent years, my practice can be seen as a series of explorations in surface disruption. This began with experiments in dissolving the pictorial space of classic works from the European tradition and continues in the current exhibition, which explores the use of depth in abstract pattern making. It’s on the surface that our perceptions are enticed by repeated blocks of colour, pixel-like, leading us into spaces, architectures, virtual worlds. My work seeks to disrupt environments as well as visual perception. The painted surface has agency, it disrupts, messes with our expectations of the world around us.