| 'Blue Zenith' | 'Blue Zenith' is made as a composite piece consisting of 2 boxes of different shapes placed side by side. The two shapes are linked by sharing a similar intense blue colour and a line, drawn in wax pencil, that threads itself across the two as if separating different areas of sky. |
| Acrylic on plywood box: 300 x 150 x 18 cms | |
| 1998 |
More : boxworks
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'Black Wave' Acrylic on plywood box. 1999 |
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'Four Sky Waves' Acrylic on plywood box. 1999 |
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'Mudwave' Acrylic on plywood box. 1999 |
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'Blue Gate' Acrylic on plywood box. 1994 |
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'Fast Night Sky Pod' Acrylic on plywood box. 1999 |
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'Turquoise Gate' Acrylic on plywood box. 1994 |
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'Solar Wave' Acrylic on plywood box. 1999 |
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'Crossover' Acrylic on plywood box. 1993 |
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'Fruiting Body II' Acrylic on plywood box. 1991 |
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'Tharsis Ridge' Acrylic on plywood box. 1994 |
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'Chalk and Sea' Acrylic on plywood box. 1995 |
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'Chalk Horizons' Acrylic on plywood box. 1995 |
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'Stellar Alchemy - Cobalt' Acrylic on plywood box. 1995 |
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'Down to the Sea' Acrylic on plywood box. 1995 |
My work illustrates examples of unusual or forgotten scientific theories and conceptual inversions of natural phenomena. The pieces fulfil the dual role of being physical objects yet with an optical/retinal presence. Painted in successive layers of transparency and seeming to emerge from the wall, they operate as if their materiality were in the process of interacting with another visually indeterminate space.
The boxworks attempt to encapsulate this experience as the ‘coherent superimposition’ of material structure and a field of imagery. That the pieces are both here and ‘somewhere else’ is an important aspiration - they are things that you can both look at and look through simultaneously. Their aim is to express the experience of solidity in transient events, a ray of sunlight through the air or the passage of the night sky across the retina; materiality as a less than certain determining condition of existence.
Practicalities
The boxworks are made from plywood, in the form of an enclosed unit and are painted with layers of acrylic and coated with acrylic varnish. Their weight is about twice that of a canvas of a similar area and are simple to hang using rawl-plugged screws located into holes at the back.
Boxworks at the Harriet Green Gallery, Soho