Paint Thing… You Make My Heart Sing Group show, The Little Machine, February 2023

Curation : Eleen Deprez and Micheal Newall 
Writer : Micheal Newall
Photography : Sam Roberts

Group show exploring painting in ‘expanded’ contexts. Please read catalogue essay by Micheal Newall for more.

Psychedelic, 黐線 (ci1 sin3), Account Statement, Failure, crumpled chinese new year banner on family screen door, oil paint and graphite on canvas

Beige, oil paint and graphite on canvas, found book (Chinese vintage cooking book)

Microsoft, oil paint and beads on canvas, found PC system, broken hair clip, beads, found scrap of red packaging paper

Works displayed for the exhibition Paint Thing… You Make My Heart Sing were an array of small new works that combined found objects from home and oil paintings on canvas.

The works were an attempt to cross the boundaries between objects that have lived a long life, such as a screen door, a computer board, an old cook book and an old used chinese new year banner, alongside a gallery space and painted canvases.

Again, these works allow objects with imbued contexts, to sit alongside a painting object, in order to disrupt our understanding of what a painting is and is for.

Installation image alongside Christian Lock and Loren Orsillo work.