CHRIS WORFOLD

WILDLIFE

Opening Event: Friday 18 Sep 6pm

Show Continues: Saturday 19 Sep 10am - 4pm | Sunday 20 Sep 10am - 2pm

Path I | Oil on oil-paper | 115 x 145cm | 2019 | (POA)

WILD LIFE at Vacant Assembly presents a range of paintings that form a conclusion to my Ph.D. studies. I have been exploring the influence of personal digital technology on the production of paintings, examining the way screens frame and fragment our vision and consciousness resulting in a potential opposition to, or transposition of, the gesture/index of the artist. Emerging from the hybridisation of digital and analogue processes these paintings form palimpsests or layered surfaces, which emphasise the facture of paint and the material presence of its support. They exhibit images and ideas that integrate my perceptual and cultural environments forming paradoxically heterogeneous and homogenous pictures.