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ARTWORK DETAILS

Name: Taylah Chad	School:
Title: Assembly	Medium: Painting
Description: A sculptural work, made from components of a deconstructed abstract painting.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Assembly is an abstract painting in three-dimensions. Two wooden canvas stretchers have been hinged to create a freestanding concertina frame. A large-scale abstract painting has been crafted then torn into four pieces. The canvas fragments are then carefully rearranged, draped, and tailored back onto the empty frame. Traditional display conventions are challenged from a solid stretched painting that is to be viewed front-on, static on a gallery wall, into a structure that cannot be ignored. My painting now stands by itself within a space and my audience must walk around the work to observe its formal qualities and physicality.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Traditional canvas pieces have been carefully dissembled and reassembled as a freestanding work on a constructed concertina frame. My painting now stands by itself within a space and my audience must walk around the work to observe its formal qualities and physicality. I generated intense layering methods to form a sense of dimension, however now the composition has been pulled apart and viewers are forced to move around work to engage carefully with layers of colour, line, and shape. Layers create sense of dimension, further amplified by physical layering

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Taylah Chad

Taylah has an interest in large-scale painting and installation. Her practice is a hybrid of geometric abstraction and expressionism, and her works are often displayed in a non-traditional ways within gallery spaces to amplify their physicality. She is fascinated in process-driven methods of layering paint, and she employs compositional techniques that focus on depth and movement, using a vibrant colour palette. She aspires to a career within the design or art industry and has a particular interest in fashion.