Oliver Perkins' paintings hover between a declaration of formal intent and material process. It is this opposition which he exploits to draw the viewer into a conversation of edge, surface and object. Perkins creates his paintings by stacking stretcher frames, pulling the canvas taught to reveal a an underlying system.
Read MoreIt is the process of stretching that the artist adopts as a formal gesture and from which he builds a vocabulary of spatial understanding. The devices of foreground and background are translated into relief, heightening the surface upon which Perkins bisects with irregular lines.
Born in New Zealand, Perkins received his MA from Chelsea School of Art, London, and is well represented between London and New Zealand. His practice is reductive and often monochromatic, and he describes his works as 'physical models that explicitly, and self reflectively, reveal the process and mechanics of production.' Yet the tension between representational space and relational concerns allow for a porous intersection to be established, navigated and negated.
