This painting is inspired by fragments of objects, forms, details and spaces gathered from everyday observations whilst walking around the city. A window ledge, the shape of the floating clouds above me, a scrap of paper blowing in the wind, overlapping roof tiles. The work reimagines and transforms these fragments into a dreamlike abstract composition of elements floating in an otherworldly landscape. I use collage and Dadaist inspired methods to evolve the composition and place trust in an unknown outcome that is driven by imagination and ambiguity. Exhibited as part of my solo show, ‘Out of the Blue’ at Apthorp Gallery, artsdepot London in March 2024. Acrylic and colour pencil on canvas.

Georgie McEwan

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My work celebrates the overlooked, forgotten and discarded through abstraction and re-imagination. Driven by the poetry of the everyday, I use collage, chance and Dadaist poetic methods to take the observer on an adventure of not knowing. I’m interested in placing trust in an unknown outcome to create an alternative way of looking at the world. In my paintings I play with dreamlike architectural dimensions and entangled collage fragments, as joyful unfolding compositions of colour and pattern. I work across 2d and 3d to explore these playful worlds and architectures of assemblage, where I can re-interpret everyday fragments into imaginative and absurd realities.