HANDS ON Drawing

Damion has exhibited paintings at the Annual National Students' Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in conjunction with the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA.) Damion has had a painting exhibited at the Christies Student exhibition, London and recently been involved in assisting performance artists. He has also been involved in public art at the Folkestone Triennial in Kent (2011). He recently graduated from the University for the Creative Arts, and plans to continue through to PhD level. Artist Statement In a Nutshell My proposed project is a series of paintings that deal with idealism and the theorisation of ideas from data. Using information derived from my personal life I am interested in composing forms of shorthand on canvas, in the form of text and diagrams, exploring issues around the abstraction of data and the visual affects of such coding through the act of painting. Introduction into Practice "‹ Elements of the work could be considered a kind of pseudoscience, the theorisation of unanswerable questions in science. In the context of painting I am interested in two key elements: The composition of materials and the textual discursive affects in terms of diagrams, text and organising text. Together these form the semiotics of my work and have an affect on the viewer. The work can be decoded in different ways, which is unique to each viewer. The information is shorthanded but not all of it is important. Work being reproduced in this manner tricks the viewer into thinking the work is meaningful "‹ The shorthanded information is gathered up from my own personal experiences with the world, daily interactions and general interests of mine. I record experiences in the form of note taking and voice notes. The Practice I have started to explore the theme of the practice by constructing information into the painted surface. I am also interested in the relationship between text and materials. I start the paintings with different types of information in the form of diagrams, words and statement's. I then compose them onto the painted surface until the act of painting takes over. I am very interested that the text is replaced by a drip of paint. As a result of recomposing short hand information and the process of reworking the painted surface the painting collapses "in metaphorical terms" to reveal new forms of information.