Black Works

Untitled Untitled Untitled Titled Not Titled, collage (newspaper cuttings on canvas), 70cm x 70cm, 2018

These black collage works explore painterly language and mark-making through the editing, dislocating and the eventual recoalescing of photographs from newspapers. Various gradients of dark tones, with occasional disturbances of highlights, lines and objects, are collaged onto a canvas surface, creating what appears to be an action or monochrome painting. The static images are re-animated into a new frozen moment of making.

Aside from the lines on the surface, the shape of the cuttings play an important part in the work. Being all square or rectangle they lend the work a pixelated aesthetic, albeit in a glitchy, post-digital manner. The accumulation of hundreds of these truncated pictures replicates our modern ways of swiping or flicking through the vast amount of imagery we now consume in the high-speed digital world.