CURRENT - UPCOMING - 2011

13th Jan. - 10th Feb. 2012
PROG Vol. 1
St David's Hall, Cardiff

Exhibition of paintings made between 2008-2011 that in their execution rely on a certain sonic atmosphere in the studio. This soundscape is derived from my habit of blasting out all sorts of well-known, obscure, and down right obscene 'Prog-Rock' during periods of decompression after completing sessions on large scale paintings.

While these smaller paintings do not derive an imagery or have a direct relationship to the visual landscape often alluded to, or inhabited by 'Prog' (as revealed on album cover art and posters of the early 1970's) they might be seen to occupy a certain ambient zone that benefits from the sonic experience of 'Prog' at it's most experimental, atonal, schizoid or ethereal. In these terms the paintings should be viewed as subliminal passages; a testing out, and a progressive shift that reflects the freedom of the artists studio environment at its most playful.

For example, the result may be a fusion not unlike what one might experience upon synthesising the improvisatory electronics of some of Prog or Krautrock's 'cosmische music'; what Erik Davis defines as "not just an object but a quality of consciousness"

30th May - 3rd June 2012
FRICTION
International Performance Art Festival in Uppsala, SWEDEN
Performance details posted nearer the time.