Programming

The essential aim of my work is to reinvigorate non-figuration by reinterpreting the constructive and expressive modes offered by painting. My pictorial problematics aim to distance myself from the lyrical excess and hedonistic abuse often associated with abstract painting today. I believe that abstraction must confront the issues compromising its future, renewing the meaning of its original values while incorporating the pictorial principles of pre-modern painting, resulting in an enlarged field of action, an expanding painting. The tubular and cylindrical forms with closed contours used in my paintings project a sense of density and heaviness characteristic of the weighty things of our world. These forms function as abstract subjects in a partially illusory space. The result is a painting that proposes a rhetoric that is neither fundamentally abstract nor fundamentally representational, straddling alienation, disjunction and exploration.

Michael Meredith