Aaron Ashwood
My practice is multidisciplinary, playing out in the interactions and slippages between painting, sculpture, sound, video, photography and installation. I am interested in the potential of materials collected from my immediate environment, and the way documenting transitions from one mode of making to another can produce new and unexpected forms.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, I began making work using recycled materials such as cardboard gathered from the packaging of numerous impulsive online purchases. In the absence of studio space, we converted the garden shed. The painted cardboard became modular, an endlessly flexible set of shapes forming and re-forming in the makeshift space.
These works act as a document of the experience of thinking through making, a study of temporality through a language of abstraction and assemblage. Time, space and memory combine into an aesthetics of resourcefulness, immediacy and process.
Cardboard Composition #1 (10/09/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #2 (15/09/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #3 (24/09/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #4 (24/09/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #5 (12/10/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #6 (12/10/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #7 (20/10/2020), 2020
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Cardboard Composition #8 (20/10/2020), 2020
Digital photograph (intentions to produce digital print)
