Colour Research

Ronneby Konsthall, 10.9 - 6.11 2022

Colour Research is an ongoing project where I explore material aspects of colour. In 2017, I started to make my own paint from materials that I find in my surroundings. This means that instead of going to the art store, I go on long trips to collect raw materials that I turn into pigments in my studio. The colours are linked to specific places and experiences. They behave in unpredictable ways, change over time, vary in shade and texture. These aspects make the colours unique: there are no two identical colours in my pigment archive.

In my MFA exhibition 2021 with the same title I presented painting in a processual setting, with artworks lined up on shelves, surrounded by tools and raw materials. For Ronneby, I inverted the form by letting the process material take the shape of paintings. I mounted palettes on wooden frames, pieced together paint rags on fiberboard, and displayed them side by side with monochromes, still lifes, and colour squares. On one wall I showed documentation photos (taken with a compact camera and printed on a photo printer in my studio). In the middle of the room stood a podium with 256 pigments from my archive: 5 years of research compressed into an area of 34x34 cm.