Lucy Odlin

My work is largely informed by the discourse surrounding the relationship between painting, photographic and digital media. Most recently I have been working from a series of photographs taken of the television, capturing a momentary disruption in signal and revealing the images on the screen as fragments of interrupted information. I have processed these images and broken them down, into at times little more than clusters of unidentifiable pixels. Employing that most traditional of mediums, oil on canvas, they are then translated into paint, and when the entire canvas is covered but not yet dry, a heavy-duty paintbrush is dragged across the surface, rendering the emerging image forever out of focus.

I aim to question the relevance of painting – an activity seen to be in many ways surpassed by digitisation and reproduction – and propose that it must fully embrace these mediums in order to maintain its validity. With a profound belief in the transformative capacity of painting, these pixels have been rebuilt in such a way that the paint has undeniable ownership of them.

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