Field Station Painting

Blackie Swart uses raw industrial materials and techniques to produce stark, mostly abstract imagery that harbours a nuanced, even delicate perspective on memory, lost places/abandoned spaces, and the ways in which personal history intersects with the built world. On the surface, his work scans as gritty and minimal, yet even a fleeting glimpse reveals intricate textures, which suggest the emotional depths that so often define individual responses to the material world.