Socially Aware Drawings & Paintings
This series of drawings and paintings responds critically and self-reflexively to the urgencies of contemporary life, often using humour as a strategic device to explore and gently provoke reflection on the impact of powerful systems on minoritised experiences and groups.
Below: Title: 'Colour as Critical Tool palette 2025' Painting on canvas. Size: 40 x 60 cms.
Colour Coded _
Drawings & Paintings
Colour-coded palettes are selected to evolve contrast between painted surfaces and the screen’s emissive colour space, reflecting how the experience of viewing colour has shifted in the digital era. As colour moves between material pigment and illuminated display, perception becomes altered and skewed through technological mediation. Within this expanded field, paint itself is treated as responsive—manipulated through encounters with digital systems, reproduction, and screen-based viewing—where colour operates simultaneously as substance, signal, and interface.
References to stationery and archival syntax act as a nod to the role artworks can play as witnesses to change, offering a counterpoint to the accelerated pace of contemporary life and creating space for reflection within exhibition contexts.
This site-specific tape drawings installation explores political and global tensions through a visually coded language that reflects the gradual “peeling back” of democratic values and the instability of shifting geopolitical landscapes. Layer by layer, the work traces fragility, erosion, and resistance—inviting viewers to read the surface as both map and message.
A retro-analogue & comic/gaming sensibility runs throughout the work, deliberately resisting the polished sheen of new technologies while engaging with the infrastructures that shape contemporary perception around global urgencies and powerful forces. 'Mogul' is the code name secret services use for the current sitting USA President.
