Abstract: This thesis is an investigation into artist strategies for rule testing and critical investigation within recent painting practices, primarily within ‘bad painting’ art practices where conscious decisions are made to paint badly.
This research aims to investigate how archetypal imagery, as seen in the literature of fantasy and mythology, can inform procedures for constructing contemporary painting within the figurative and abstract elements.
Metaphysics is a Master's thesis in Visual Arts regarding the face, in the form of a 9 channel video installation with accompanying publication and thesis document.