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Emily Gordon<br />
emily.gordon24@gmail.com<br />
Through the paintings I experiment with<br />
mark-making, colour, shape and form. My<br />
practice explores ideas of transformation,<br />
through destruction and reconstruction. I<br />
cut and rip my paintings ap<strong>art</strong> to rebuild<br />
them into new works. This approach has<br />
become crucial as I don’t see works as<br />
finished until I have destroyed them to some<br />
extent. My current works have pushed this<br />
to a new extreme, where I am cutting and<br />
ripping paintings ap<strong>art</strong> until only piles of<br />
canvas are left on the floor. I see this as the<br />
st<strong>art</strong>ing point of the paintings, with the piles<br />
of cut and ripped canvas the building<br />
blocks. As I rebuild the paintings fragments<br />
and p<strong>art</strong>s come together in fresh ways with<br />
one another. Reconstructing the pieces<br />
creates entirely new paintings and with it<br />
new meanings. Dynamic new forms are<br />
created and these enable me to display the<br />
paintings in less formal and unconventional<br />
ways, allowing them to become a p<strong>art</strong><br />
greater of the space.<br />
‘Untitled’, 2015 (acrylic on MDF,<br />
H73cm x W116cm)<br />
‘Untitled’, 2015 (acrylic on canvas, H114cm x W71cm)<br />
‘Untitled’, 2015 (acrylic on canvas, H100cm x W79cm)<br />
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