Spontaneity and chance in the studio

Because I work in a chaotic way, often impatiently, intuitively and unplanned, paintings might materialise because of events of chance such as discovering discarded material, being given a piece of board or canvas, or using up materials so as not to waste them. If I have an excess of mixed/poured paint, I will use it to add to another work, whether painting over it to start again or adding to it in some way with pattern or text. My studio is an organised mess, sketchbooks and boards stacked up but some work hung together or sketchbook pages displayed next to each other to consider composition. Looking at pieces of text or drawings in relation to one another influences the development of ideas and combinations of phrases and image.

Similar to Emins Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, work is produced around me in the space and leaves a trace of the act of making, reflecting the personal and diaristic process. I have been pushing myself to expand in scale, aiming to create a large piece combining many different representations of my work in one amalgamation; overheard, statements, patterns. However, this is not how I work organically, rarely finishing one piece on a large scale, but creating and collecting small expressions and ideas. I need to experience with ways of communicating and staging to an audience that reflects this.