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.
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.
This project researched the one hundred year history of geometric abstract painting and its origins in utopian ideas and non-representational object-hood. Employing predetermined rules and working methods, commercial and industrial materials, cloth tape was used to create ‘paintings’...