Portable Worlds

Left: Mr. Fry's Restaurant 1 (2023) |Acrylic on Cardboard |100 x 120 cm
Right: Mr. Fry's Restaurant 1 (2023) |Acrylic on Canvas | 120 x 180 cm

Tactile paintings of handheld worlds

Usually, drawings and paintings of spaces are scaled down from the original. In these paintings it's the opposite - by making a big painting of a miniature world, a very small object is scaled up and made very large. I am trying to see what happens to the spaces in between during this process of enlargement.

A miniature world created from a tortilla dish that was reused as a painting palette.
Little Studio Box (2023) | Ink on Reused IKEA Cardboard Box | 10 x 10 x 5 cm
My House at Home (2020) | Ink on Paper, Digitally Coloured |30 x 42 cm
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An earlier drawing depicting the house in Singapore where I grew up, where my parents and sisters still live. It references the original Polly Pocket dolls from the 90’s, a nod to the period where I spent the most time in this house.  Something is slightly different each time I go back, creating a strange disjunction between the familiar and unfamiliar. Maybe when you move away from home, home itself inevitably moves on without you, and your idea of it can never quite catch up, stuck in various bits of time. Through representing my childhood home as a dollhouse that can be opened and closed, these were some of the thoughts and feelings I was hoping to explore and convey.
My House at Home (2021) |Ink on Paper, Digitally Coloured | 30 x 42 cm
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An earlier drawing depicting my flat in London as a Polly Pocket dollhouse.

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