gouache on paper

116 x 38 cm

I identify as a queer female painter who can be placed somewhere between colour field painting and abstract minimalism. The primary focus and creative rationale of my work is to explore what painting can be.

My work operates in the productive tension between two distinct histories of Modernist abstraction: hard-edged geometric abstraction, and expressionist gestural painting.

Formally and pictorially, I use blankness and the idea of the void as both literal and metaphoric engagements with painting’s relationship to technology. Yves Klein’s (1928-1962, French) attitude to minimalism and his references to the void are pictorial ideas I frequently return to: he wanted the subjects of his work to be images of their own absence.

Through my paintings, I wonder what this could mean for painting as a medium and as a creative practice that coexists with the digital virtual (abstract) world?

When making paintings I strive to capture a balance between elegance and poise within the fluid, sometimes rough, and honest handlings of paint.

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