Gel Painting

The artist’s gel painting practice operates within a materially driven framework informed by theories of entropy, ruination, and post-anthropocentric materialism.

 

Situated between abstraction and site-responsive observation, the work emerges from a sustained engagement with the urban and non-urban environment encountered in places where the artist resides and those accessed through travel.

 

Within these shifting contexts, surfaces function as repositories of temporal, social, and environmental inscription. Layering and mark-making are deployed as iterative, accumulative gestures that parallel processes of accretion, erosion, and stratification - foregrounding time as an active material condition rather than a representational theme.

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​This conceptual and methodological orientation originates in a formative encounter with urban decay in 1978, when, at the age of seven, the artist observed a billboard subjected to prolonged environmental exposure.