Nick MALONE

This series develops an emerging iconography that refers in different ways to inner fable, geography, and dream using multiple forms of collage and construction. The paintings were made by manipulating unstretched canvas into 3D 'maps' of mountains and valleys, where paint was poured and then evaporated before subsequent intervention, within a story of exploration set in an imaginary rainforest; all the works involved defining forms in an interaction between chance and intent, between willed and unwilled areas of paint. The constructions were part of an exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space London that crossed art forms while exploring issues of metamorphosis, dissolution, and change. Occupying a third space between drawing and sculpture, they deal with inner mythology through dissolving planes with wood, canvas, and charcoal.