Symbols of Lexeme – Middlesbrough Art Week 2023

In September 2023 as part of the MAW 2023 event (Middlesbrough Art Week) I created a durational painting over 8 days. Each day I would paint black symbols onto an 8m long canvas, and then paint back over the symbols with white paint before starting the process again.

The piece looks at human emotion and how those emotions or memories of them fade over time, but still shape the person we have become. Though the previous symbols painted became faint or even seemed to disappear, their impression still remained and influenced the new layer of paint.

This painting was part of a larger solo exhibition at Middlesbrough Art Week that included site specific installations, interactive artwork, video and sound pieces alongside this performative piece in the Pineapple Black gallery space.