Abi Box
I like to think of the possibilities present in gesture and suggestion, to think of light as something so bright that it might be audible.
Abi Box is a painter inspired by the different places and environments that she visits. Her works challenge our sense of depth, rearranging space on the canvas while moving between figuration and abstraction. Traveling from place to place, the different flora, like brushstrokes, fluctuate wildly in ‘style’ and these regional nuances inspire Box’s own vocabulary of mark making. Reinventing observations by interrupting accurate depiction with painterly translations, Box creates visual descriptions that are poetically detached from reality.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
solo shows in London and Hong Kong. Her work is held in private and public collections including the University of the Arts London Alumni Collection and the esteemed Simmons & Simmons collection.
PUBLISHED:
BA in Fine Art from University of the Arts Camberwell and a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art Studies Sculpture and Environmental Design from the Glasgow School of Art.
Box lives and works between Bermuda and London.
“Painting as poetry makes sense to me, especially with concern to translation and interpretation, words painting pictures and pictures inspiring words. I like to think of the possibilities present in gesture and suggestion, to think of light as something so bright that it might be audible. When I paint, my mind is in constant flux for how a painting can be made, constructed, pieced together, and subsequently read and understood. I want to make spacious, minimal, balanced paintings, I want to make awkward, messy, chockablock paintings. I’d like to make both kinds of painting at the same time, and then there’s the risk, every time, of making a bad painting. The good paintings are so often accidental, ignorantly brave and beautifully reckless.”
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