Patrick Morrissey and Hanz Hancock Artist's Statement

Patrick Morrissey Morrissey utilises a modular language to promote an appearance of gradual mutation. Permutating numerical sequences are used in the process of creating images which are febrile, seemingly operating between two and three dimensions. This process leads to a kinetic binary outcome which can either be modified, controlled or left to accrue randomly. In every instance, the intention is not to present an identifiable focal reference point, but rather,to induce in the viewer, a visual and physiological saturation of consciousness. ‘The feeling of a durational changing space is critical to Patrick Morrissey’s work. He employs numerical systems, juxtaposing trapezoids, rhombuses and parallelograms in a ‘meandering geometry’. The works seem to respond to the possibilities in projected imagery, light, monumentality and sequential / serial development. For Morrissey the idea of playback or obliteration of content from continuous playing opens up the notion of an after-image, either from the modality of the past or from the experience of pure colour saturation in varying systems. (Laurence Noga 2017) Hanz Hancock Hancock’s work is derived from the use of numerical sequences that create a rudimentary code which ultimately creates variable, mandala-like imagery in his drawing, painting and constructions The picture plane is galvanized into a series of alternating planes which are evanescent in appearance, but never typically 'kinetic'. Structures that form in the close mesh of drawn lines coalesce and dissipate, and are metaphors for the transient nature of geometric form found in the natural and built environment. Bio: Both artists work individually and also share common practice and have curated and shown work internationally and in the UK. They co-founded and run Saturation Point, the online editorial, and curatorial project in London, with the objective of contextualising dialogue around systems, reductive and geometric practice within broader framework of contemporary British Abstraction. Recent projects have included ‘Orthogonal 16’ Bulgaria curated by Georgi Dimitrov, ‘Imperfect Reverse’, Camberwell / Anglia Ruskin galleries curated by Saturation Point, (Morrissey and Hancock) and Laurence Noga (UAL Camberwell). ‘International Concrete’ Barcelona ,Entr’ Acte, Paris (SP) Silas Von Morrisse gallery, New York. ‘Echo Spectrum’ New York ‘Structures’ residency, Newlyn Art gallery. ‘In Line’ Griffin Gallery London, and currently ‘Transforming Surfaces’ Arthouse1 gallery London and ‘Internal Structure’ Imprints Galerie, Crest , France curated by Matthew Tyson