Ian Parker: things unmade, remembered, forgotten

About

Things unmade, remembered, forgotten brings together a group of small paintings made over the past four years by Ian Parker.

Parker’s work is grounded in the material practice of painting, the modernist notion of painting as matter, its status and process as material.

A work may begin with a specific idea or as a vague reaction; a response to a thought, a shape, map colour keys, other works, studio paraphernalia, everyday domestic objects, drawings, a piece of information. This can be emotional, political, aesthetic, material or intellectual, and often a combination of all these elements. This experiential flux is mediated through the language of painting; received, learnt, remembered, questioned, discarded and rediscovered. And always the thing itself as it unfolds through the act of making, an accretion, a kind of muscle memory.