Trying to figure out where my paintings should sit together was hard because the big ones are still wet. but i managed to get someone to help me hold them while I pinned them up.
Ive put the two large ones the furthest apart because I want them to be visible together but I want them to be able to be seen alone.
I see the install as one whole group of friends but two slightly different conversations. on the left wall with the large blue and magenta pinstripe painting and the small oil pastel, I’m really interested in the conversation that goes on between the two of them. The large painting whose colours are duller than I wanted (I’m working on figuring out how to avoid this for later paintings) but it holds the immediate attention because of the nature of the size, but the small pastel drawing demands your gaze because the colour contrasts are stronger and theres a lot more going on. They also hold colour similarities, so I like viewing them together.
The second sub-conversation is about patterning and repetition. The smaller works are playful explorations of different patterning types, and the larger work has one solid committed one. Whilst all of the smaller works are interesting in their own compositional size I don’t think they’re strong enough to be alone, but I think they add a lot to the larger one. (i do think the larger one can hold its own and could very plausibly just be alone, but because its a studio B hand in i want to show all the facets of my process)
becks ireland 