FACSIMILE (2017)

Facsimile began as a proposal for exhibition in Berlin in 2017. Scale and distance were a constant in the process for trying to undertake this exhibition, and ultimately the work made for this show has dramatically changed my approach to painting since.

Prior to Facsimile the painting practice that I was exploring involved a large scale interrogation of the object and a proposed space around the object, manifest in a post-cubist idiom. Physically moving this work across the world presented to me a problem too large to solve for the show, so what was proposed was a consideration of how the object might present if it were, in part, absent, a theme central to my painting practice.

I intended then to make a series of paintings, photograph these paintings, and then travel to Europe, where I would reproduce these via digital printing methods at 1×1 scale and exhibit them as Facsimile of the original, altering both the stasis of the original work and the subsequent position of the work presented for show…This ultimately did not happen, as I chose to investigate the ways in which I might make work that engaged more in the object/thing nature of the work.

Below are a selection of work that made up the Facsimile show in Berlin. Following this I exhibited the initial Facsimile project buy making the photographs of these new works and exhibited these in a new show called Parcel at Inge Doesburg Gallery in Dunedin New Zealand in 2017.

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