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Spiritual Painting

Morgan Stokes

Oil and wax on stitched hessian
2022
164cm H x 124cm W x 5.5cm D
One-of-a-kind original
Framed in Tasmanian Oak Frame with shou sugi ban finish

Stokes’ practice explores and reinterprets the medium of painting, and more recently, sculpture. His conceptual approach dissects painting into its discrete elements, such as linen, paint and stretcher bars, to enquire into what makes a painting in the digital age. By creating formal studies into material, Stokes’ works explore what he calls the ‘virtual gaze’, that is, how our mode of perception is shifting as our lives are increasingly mediated by the screen.

The works are both introspective and reflective, Stokes’ post-minimal sensibility and meditative process evident with the gentle working of each surface. Stokes’ recalls the origins of art, the nature of creation, and the role of material in an increasingly material-free culture.

“Inspired by techniques and forms seen in Alberto Burri’s Material Realism, art movements like the Korean Dansaekhwa and Post-Minimalism, and the suspended sculptures of Jose Dávila, the works in ‘Skin’ are reduced in order to emphasise their materiality. Surfaces of the canvases form a type of skin, constructed through repetitive actions that create highly textured surfaces. 

In a way, his paintings explore the dynamic traits of skin—its vulnerabilities to space and time and its unique irregularities. In some works, traditional painting materials such as linen and canvas are torn up and reconstructed; perhaps questioning what makes a painting in the digital age. Silk, metal and clothing stand in for canvas in others, our eyes question the surface. Elsewhere, the fabric stretches or expands depending on the level of humidity; the painting breathes and changes, it is not a static image. ”

Extract from Stephanie Wade’s essay – A Glitch In Time (2003)

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