Morgan Stokes’ post-minimal sensibility and meditative process is evident with the gentle working of each surface. This latest series of work recalls the origins of art, the nature of creation, and the role of material in an increasingly material-free culture.

Says Morgan of his practice, “In my work I explore and reinterpret the medium of painting, and more recently, sculpture. From a conceptual approach, I aim to dissect painting into its discrete elements, such as linen, paint or stretcher bars, to enquire into what makes a painting in the digital age. By creating formal studies into material, I explore what I call the ‘virtual gaze’, that is, how our mode of perception is shifting as our lives are increasingly mediated by the screen.”

Morgan’s continuing preoccupation for how our mode of perceptions have changed in a post-internet world is evident through his use of material. His works embody a corporeality, they are studies in matter and not images, and can be seen as formal exercises in reduction to understand the vitality of form and material. Morgan is not only investigating the objecthood of painting, he is imbuing matter with a philosophical resonance in an age of the immaterial.