Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

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My practice begins with a daily discipline of meditation and drawing. I approach the studio as a space of listening — to the body, to memory, to place, and to the moment when a line, colour, or motif asks to emerge. Nothing is forced; I wait for it.

Pattern is at the centre of my paintings. I draw on ornaments from indigenous and ancient visual traditions, and I treat these not as decoration but as systems of knowledge in their own right. I don’t copy them. I take them apart and rebuild them through colour, composition, and space — searching for the common language beneath them.

The places I live and work in inform everything: the primal tension of Rio, the holding stillness of Bali, the monumental weight of London and Milan. The work balances intellect and transcendence — grounded in research and material process, yet open to intuition and the unknown. The resulting images are meditative, layered, and symbolic, locating the infinite within the tangible.

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GlogauAIR Project

This residency continues my inquiry into ornament as a form of knowledge rather than decoration. I work from a simple claim: that Mediterranean pattern traditions – Roman mosaic, Greek and Sicilian ornament – and indigenous visual traditions are equal systems, each with its own intelligence, where pattern behaves like a language, structuring a surface the way grammar structures a sentence. Painting becomes the place where that equality is tested. I arrive with several directions in mind – a quieter register of colour and shape where pattern surfaces here and there; a move that carries geometric ornament into animal and forest forms; and a reworking of damaged Roman and Greek surfaces, where cracked floors and worn walls are reinterpreted in paint and combined with indigenous and contemporary symbols – held together by a single question: what happens when patterns from unrelated traditions are made to share, and interrupt, the same surface.

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