Artist statement:  These works were made almost in 2016 in
response to the U.S. election and the fast emerging post truth world. They came
out of trying to negotiate the question of how to maintain an artistic practice
rooted in abstraction whilst trying to grapple with the troubling context of
world events unfolding beyond the studio. It started with a clipping from a
Newspaper framed with the American Stripes after that ill-fated election.
The old certainties of the analogue world where the newspaper held the
role of regulating information now replaced with an increasingly complex and
unfolding information reality – a fractured space, where the proliferation of
multiple media sources is increasingly accompanied by a lack of understanding
about how these sources of information are produced and how they might be
manipulated.