Living in the material world

Catalogue of exhibition held at gallery/ten 13th october - 19th November 2016, 23 Windsor place Cardiff cf10 3by  and installation at cardiff contemporary, 10th October - November 12th 2016, school of art & design Cardiff metropolitan university western avenue, cardiff cf5

Painting and Installation as Communicator and Transmitter of experience that reflects the historical uncertainty of time and place. 

This research investigates how painting can be experienced as an 'extended' practice through installed groups and configurations. The current focus of this work is an exploration of modernist architectural legacies as the post-WW2 utopian vision of civic, municipal and social progress.  

The work draws upon the materiality of the built environment and its abstract displacement through art as a memory of forms reimagined as a parallel universe. In proposing a simulacrum the research questions our received notion of authenticity in a world constructed through imperial economies of power that contribute to national/cultural/post-colonial identity made manifest through art and architecture.