Identified by their viscous oil paint overlaid with systematic detail, these abstract oil paintings combine concrete with organic methodologies.
The imagery is arrived at through the use of algorithms which respond to visual disorder in the uneven ground of the painting. Typically, these are formalised painting rules that accentuate any pre-existing repetition and patterns in the materiality of the surface. For example, aligned or similar features are systematically and uniformly highlighted or linked, producing complex indeterminate formations.
The works draw on a knowledge of abstract painting and its linguistic territories while referring to other fields such as complexity and systems theory.
Because regulation and algorithms are socially ubiquitous, the painting relates to discourses on the strengths and issues of socio-political organisation. It explores how invisible borders and legislation are nonetheless geometric structures. Categories and boundaries are determined that interrogate the margins between the immediately visible, the barely perceptible and what can only be seen through behaviours generated. The formation of networks overlaps with neuroscience, bioscience and computer science. The indeterminacy and the complexity of the imagery highlights and interest in the political economy in the values that regulation offers civil society.