“My paintings are generously raw in their abstraction. The surface is built with expansive swathes of paint and mark making that is both measured and wildly uninhibited. 

Through gesture and colour I develop a way to say something as simply as possible, through paint. My paintings behave like sculptures, in their experiments of material and form. The brush strokes move from light and playful – as if carried by the wind – to cumbersome and exposed. The colour palette feels ripe and alive while easy and serene. Some surfaces seem worn in as if they have been washed away by the rain or bleached out by the heat of the sun.

There is steady warmth to the work as if we are getting closer to the core of something.”

– Claudia Bagnall

“My work investigates ideas of co-dependency and connection. These paintings depict my existing sculptural works and allow me to imagine new assemblages through a two-dimensional lens.

I draw inspiration from southern Italian folk art, in particular the tradition of the self-taught craft practitioner.

My creative process includes material exploration with an emphasis on texture, colour, and composition.”

– Luca Lettieri

“My practice is embryonic, it only exists as it is for a moment. It represents a time where chaos and irregularities fall seamlessly into one space, Tetris. As an intuitive process it inches towards control, but also chance and ultimately time as it changes.

I explore collage in my work. I use segments of old paintings. With those works that fell away I create new works, a framework for new abstract conversations. As the works are sewn together, a new story is written. I watch and participate as these shapes take form.

This practice also involves using stencils of found objects. Playing with the understanding that an outline can imitate our imagination. Steel, foam, and gravel are objects used as stencils in my work, the mundane and physical characteristic is what interests me. Drifting in and out of my environment these everyday objects are recontextualized in poetic notions of life, infused with colour and mark making. The repetitious and methodical act of mark making, allows me to build up an architectural ground for abstract dialogues.”

– Elliot Watson