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.

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.