NOEL IVANOFF

He has a particular interest in how paintings are stored and transported and how the means of their transportation might be an active visual and conceptual element. As well as demonstrating a finely tuned attention to the artist as fabricator, his practice also embraces and responds to readymade objects, in the form of flat-packed boxes and wooden pallets, that acknowledge the structure of art and the industry and architecture that is its support.

In his most recent work Ivanoff examines the constituent elements of paint and the process of simultaneously making both paint and painting. He uses a circular grinding tool, a levigator, that applies, mixes and grinds pigment with binder all at the same time. The works are executed in one movement in a form of action painting that acknowledges domestic and commercial modes of production.