'SPENSIVE

or Desires explode out of me like ribbons and decorate the night in sparkling excess.

Made from plastic foam balls, fake pearls, crushed glass, recycled champagne bottles, glass beads, plastic tube confetti, confetti, glitter, mica, aluminium, brass, magnetite, crushed jade, gesso, acrylic, oil, pastel, pigment stick, pigment, aerosol, damar, gamvar, uv archival spray on stretched canvas.

I wanted to create something that felt like a confetti pop, an unhinged eruption of light and colour to mirror the bittersweet thrill of consumer culture and late capitalism's explosive cultivation of desire. All that glitters lures me in, seduces me and sediments to a sparkling, simmering crust. Watch it pop off...

48" x 60".
Available for collection