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'Feelings and Other Forms'

I made fourteen paintings for this solo exhibition. This body of work focused on relationships between colour and figurative imagery in painting. The basis of each painting was to visually communicate a sensation or feeling of a familiar or everyday subject. A key aspect for investigation was surface qualities of colour. These paintings therefore encompassed much experimentation of different types of paint and ground. An overarching aim, was to establish a way of creating paintings where a repeated motif did not dominate and, instead, a convincing autonomous relationship was struck between an image and the material colour from which it is made.

A monograph publication ‘Feelings and Other Forms’ was produced for the exhibition. This exhibition was a Guardian newspaper ‘Pick of the Week’ (4.10.08) and was reviewed in Map Magazine and Turps Banana magazine. Two of the works in this exhibition, ‘Desk’ and ‘Soft Person’, became part of the Saatchi Collection and were later exhibited in ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’, at the Saatchi Gallery, a gallery space open to the public. Another of the paintings, ‘Silver Shower’, originally part of the ‘Feeling and Other Forms’ exhibition, was later included in ‘The British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’. ‘Feelings and Other Forms’ led to my first solo exhibition outside of the UK (Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles). It also contributed to my work being featured in ‘Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory’ published by Phaidon and the New Museum, New York. Another outcome was that I was commissioned to create an artwork for the publication ‘Vides – a Retrospective of the Void’, published by the Centre Pompidou. I was invited to speak about the paintings I made for this exhibition at: UCA Farnham, UCA Canterbury and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.