SysVar / ONE / pearlescent and SysVar / TWO / cerulean lacquer are the first two systematic variation drawings I made, alongside an associated Print Club edition.
About SysVar
SysVar, or Systematic variation, ONE encapsulates the first iteration of a new idea for processing the drawings with a multi layering technique, that sees them becoming more complex, more impure, more abstracted, more serendipitous.
Perhaps with more haptic materials there's some desire to keep the line tight and work cleanly to deliver a polished final piece. With digital tools, I increasingly find my interest tends to lie in the exact opposite direction.
Working on how to add randomness, avoid clinical symmetries, and explore new techniques to distort and modulate the colour and linework, in order to produce unexpected or surprising results, is something I’m keen to study further.
As desktop computers have increased in power, so the ability to work on larger, denser files in close to real-time has advanced, and as such it’s becoming possible to work on more complex studies while the paint's still wet, at least metaphorically speaking.
SysVar is one of a new series of drawings that takes full advantage of this speed bump in the studio and uses the opportunity to work into the geometry more intricately, hopefully with some quite engaging results...
SysVar in situ
Price and dimensions
SysVar / ONE / pearlescent is a metallic Lambda photographic print, optionally mounted to Plexiglass and Dibond, and fitted with a hidden subframe, ready to install. The edition may also be fitted with a bespoke, laser cut, Opal 30 Perspex frame.
Work can be supplied unmounted and ready to frame if you’d prefer.
The work is individually signed and numbered verso, with both a unique catalogue raisonné number and the edition number for guaranteed authenticity.
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From an edition of 12
Image size ⋅ 88cm H x 72cm W
Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £1,800
Mounted behind Plexiglass and fitted with a hidden subframe ⋅ £2,200
Mounted behind Plexiglass and fitted with a laser cut Perspex frame ⋅ £2,400
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Dimensions and framing specs can be varied on request, to suit your space.
Please do get in touch here if you’d like to discuss possibilities ⟶
Associated works
