stephen glover

Amalgam

My artworks intuitively respond to the recall of experience and memory of place. Created in a non-objective style and formed as a visual dialogue between gestural marks and geometric shapes and forms, this ever-changing process employs a symbolic language between the expressive nature of emotion and the logic of reason. Our recall is impacted by the filters through which we perceive. Surface patinas, scrapings and textures reveal layers from another time and act as witness to what has gone before. This is a

response to the shifting nature and impermanence of living each day.

These abstract works also draw inspiration from musical improvisation, particularly jazz. Both have a form but finding the line where risk taking meets clumsiness is often hard to locate. These works seek to find a closeness to that line.

Amalgam

I currently work out of Stain Studio at Burrinja Cultural Centre. My painting, collage, assemblage drawing and printmaking piece together fragments from direct observation and imaginings to form artworks which hover somewhere between two and three dimensions. Compositions evolve intuitively, based upon how I feel, with careful consideration given to the scale of forms and shapes contained within. Although labelled as abstract, I see my artworks as a response to my surrounds, allowing space for viewer interpretation to form meanings.

My influences from such names as Robert Ryman, Robert Rauschnberg, Alfred Leslie and Sean Scully. The flat surface is a field of possibility where amalgamations evolve; to add, subtract, overlap and scrape, forming one structure without the loss of individual entities.

stephen glover

Amalgam

Amalgam

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