This Blog serves to document my Fine Art Practice since graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from WITT in 2003. My current work deals with the manipulation of Acrylic Paint, as a flexible 3Dimensional paint skin which becomes an entity in itself.

I'm investigating a process of smothering layers of paint over a ready-made object, and then peeling the paint off as a skin, which leaves a soft hollow replica of the original object. The work analyse's an interplay between absense and presence, realism and the void:

Using the ready made object I am transforming liquid paint into a 3D entity. When the paint is freed from the object the work becomes a live freeform entity where the paint is free to behave on its own accord, gently sagging and collapsing into its own comfortable equilibrium. The act of painting directly onto the surface of an object captures a precise interior print of the real object thus taking the genre of painting to a heightened form of realism. The flip side of this is that the finished artwork is a hollow shell of paint which encases a void of where an object once was - an intriguing interplay between presence and absence.

My work draws links to artists from the abstract expressionist movement, the action painting of Jackson Pollock, as well as concepts from the colour field artists such as Mark Rothko. Parallels can also be drawn to the spatial and conceptual aspects of the void in the works of Yves Klien and Rachel Whiteread.