The paintings pictured below are all works I’ve created in the past six months.
They are inspired by my teenage years; growing up working class in central London surrounded by dance culture and graffiti while studying art history and burying my head in literature of the past.
They are a love letter to where I grew up and the curiosity and anticipation I felt at that time.
A central theme of my work is one of the palimpsest – a manuscript or piece of writing that has been covered and written over again and again over time. My paintings are the most obvious example of this line of inquiry. Layers and layers of paint are built up then finally I ‘commit’ to ‘writing’ over the paint. I then create layers of ‘text’ or ‘tags’ across the canvas. It marries my fascination with the process of painting and my recent investigation into asemic poetry and writing.
