BIO
Mine is a contemplative art inspired by evolutionary process in language, history, and consciousness. Through contemplating such phenomena, I am led me to create abstract arrangements that convey a sense of flux and transformation. My paintings are akin to organisms made up of accumulated layers and traces of decisions, the result of my wish to expand mine and a viewer’s consciousness through the act of creation. Text-related shapes conjoin and overlap in my work, which suggests language to is an organism, with its own evolutionary possibilities, both shaping and adapting to it’s environment.
The forms in my paintings evoke human presence, conveyed in essence as a sign or glyph, for really each one of us is a unique glyph flowing in a continuum of presence and language over time. These signifiers are especially apparent in the HYPERGLYPH series, painted with ink on Korean Hanji paper. The painted Hanji is torn and cut into pieces that are playfully shifted around to explore possible compositions, then mounted onto canvas. During this process in the studio the childhood experience of play and being open to chance as an element of creativity is activated.
My main artistic influences are reductive abstraction as well as visual art traditions from the east Asian region, such as ink painting, calligraphy, textile dye-art, and woodblock prints. I am a Melbourne based artist, and currently work from my studio at the Hawthorn Arts Centre. I have work in both public and private collections in Australia, Europe and South Korea.
