Painting - Abstract
Jack Woolley
Jack has developed a relationship with painting that investigates the overlapping notions of object, illusion, and surface – experimenting with deconstruction/reconstruction and questioning the roles of the elements that make up a painting. What if the stretcher bars become the dominant form, towering over the canvas? What if the canvas is sewn together according to its own intrinsic topography? Jack uses this language of expanded painting to examine troubling socio-political issues and interrogate the gap between representation and reality, while working in elements of his own personal history, like the sailmaking techniques he learnt from his father.
