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September 5, 2024

New Collection by Liam Stevens

Artist Statement: Contemplating our external environment is integral to my practice, but the results are not mimetic. Rather, my work strives to create an artistic language that transcends a singular context, place or time, speaking instead to the shared, universal essence of everything that surrounds us.

Through the implementation of repeated lines and forms, these works draw a parallel between nature’s capacity to generate myriad variations of the same object — like raindrops or leaves on a tree — and our fabricated setting, characterised by duplicate grids, structures, and intersections. This exploration extends to material and spatial considerations, where fullness is interspersed with the void; where the interval is as essential as the structures that define it.

Untitled V, 2024

Central to this body of work is my nascent series, Array. These reflections take shape under a variation of self-imposed constraints, probing new ways to deepen the themes within my practice. Beyond aesthetics, the paintings consider our relationship to time, conceptualising it as a uniformly repetitive unit within a set framework or grid. Whether measured in minutes or days, each unit of time repeats within a systematic structure, yet remains distinct in its unfolding moments — expanding on the interconnectivity of nature, architecture and human perception.