Forthcoming Group Exhibition

The work Luminous Impulses is a research piece for my PhD developed at UCA and awarded by the University of Brighton in 2019. The work is an interpretation in glass mosaic of a sector of the cosmic microwave background map of the early universe. It is a look back in time to the earliest light ever emitted. It only came into existence due to new technologies of space exploration and the availability of images online. The work references Pointillism and John Ruskin's theory as expressed in The Elements of Drawing (1857). Ruskin became an important mentor for Paul Signac who almost literally employed Ruskin’s ideas in his paintings. ‘In filling up your work... lay them [hues] like a mosaic-worker’ (Ruskin). Luminous Impulses highlights the importance of glass technologies by exploring a particular way of structuring the visual suggesting that mosaic principles, combined with modernist experiments of the grid, have enabled the passage from the actual built environment of construction to the virtual –image-based– environment of digital technologies.

Past Solo Exhibitions

In Literal Cubism I present a retrospective series of enfolded paintings exploring constructive notions of the pictorial space, referencing early modernist movements such as Cubism and Constructivism as well as Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Through the modulation of hundreds of independent units of composition, I revisit the grid as an organisational mode highlighting the intrinsic connection between ancient mosaic principles and recent digital technologies. The exhibition showcases a particular way of structuring images conflating notions of pre- and post-digital aesthetic in a playful manner.

In Material Modulation I present a selection of works in which the concept of 'thinking through making' is fundamental. Without a concern to be trendy or fit into any particular debate, my pieces vary considerably in appearance, from minimalist to decorative and even grotesque, highlighting the importance of the Deleuzian Rhizome as a model for artistic experimentation. As an artist, I strive to break away from academically imposed values of art, threading a fine line between art, craft and design, exploring themes of identity and belonging, as well as constructive approaches to the pictorial space and notions of pre- and post-digital aesthetics.

In this exhibition I offer an overview of works produced in the last 20 years, highlighting my rhizomatic approach to making, where I juxtapose a personal narrative of autoimmunity with an informed, research-based, material practice. The works presented here belong to separate series produced prior, during and after my doctoral research. Overwhelmed by post-pandemic circumstances: event cancellations, financial hardship and reduced storage space, I embraced this last-minute opportunity to get the works on display, allowing new narratives to emerge and possibly new avenues to pursue out of the oddity of the recent pandemic.

Featured Artwork

Angelus Amstelodami (2023)