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"The seed can be initialized randomly II"

Temnikova & Kasela Gallery Tallinn, Estonia

May 18th - Jun 16th

Jun 17th - Aug 18th by appointment only

 

 

Black gloves, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Hand painted on hand tufted wool

200 × 150 cm

 

Liquid rock, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Acrylic, canvas

61 × 45 cm

 

Mop up, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Hand painted on hand tufted wool

200 × 150 cm

 

Sad but sad, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Acrylic, canvas

200 × 150 cm

 

The past of the future, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Acrylic, canvas

200 × 150 cm

 

From liquid to hard to soft too hard, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Hand painted on hand tufted wool

47 × 61 cm

 

Best friends hair will always take care, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Wool and best friends hair, hand woven and embroidered

195 × 140 cm

 

Cleaners gloves, painters memoir, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Hand woven from old paintings by Merike Estna

43 × 58 cm

 

Loose ends not so loose ends no ends, 2017

from the Liquid Rock series

Acrylic, canvas

61 × 45 cm

'Kneeling Banana / Angel flew over my head on the 7th floor above the seabed'

 

painting as a curtain

acrylic on canvas

H300cm x L490cm

2017

photo credit Stanislav Stepasko, Courtesy Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn

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Red Herring

 

participatory painting, Red Herring serves as a distraction from the main cause

mixed media, 2017

thank you to Rupert and Maximillian Gallo

photo credit Evgenia Levin

 

Estna editions

 

Scarfs as paintings, paintings as scarfs

Silk paint and acrylic on silk or cotton

2017

Courtesy Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn

 

 

‘If you wanna cut it you should dance and take it as it’s served’

 

‘If you wanna cut it you should dance and take it as it’s served’

acrylic on board, painting as a stage,

20cm high, 122cm wide x 244cm

performances on the stage painting by Chris Cundy and Bobby Barry & Ian Mikyska, 17 March 2017, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire,

 

‘Agreement’

acrylic on canvas

245cm x 350cm

2016

State audit Office Tallinn, Estonia

photo credit Stanislav Stepasko

Everything I have everything I had everything I'm going to have nothing.

 

‘The eyes as pale as my morning hike’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

 

‘your hands are hovering in the airI go’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

 

‘what do you mean? when you ask me to explainit's too early now’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

 

‘bow bow bow bow’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

 

 

‘Your turquoise eyes are hovering in my mind’

acrylic on canvas

130 cm x 90 cm

2016

 

‘I can't possibly focus’

acrylic on canvas

130 cm x 90 cm

2016

 

‘and the way you hold this as a distant precious brushstrokereally brakes my heart’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘see ya’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘green sausages of the season of starsserved with a memory of things that have yet to come’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘everyhting I haveeveryting I hadeverything I'm going to havenothing’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘ghost of despair’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘welcome, welcome back, she said’

60,5cm x 45,5cm

acrylic on canvas

2016

 

‘with a high pitch voice which echoed in the newly painted gallery space for hoursand hours and hours and hours’

 

acrylic on canvas

198cm x 198cm

2016

 

‘Ghostbiker’

 

‘and my pair of shorts will flow with the time’

Acrylic on shorts

2016

 

‘I'm not a very strong swimmer, but I'm resistant’

Acrylic on a pair of socks

2016

 

‘cast in acrylic, my sweatshirt will live forever’

Acrylic on a sweatshirt

2016

 

3 stripes

Acrylic on canvas

2016

 

'when I opened my eyes I realized there was nothing’

 

‘when I opened my eyes I realized there was nothing except the usual floaters’

acrylic on canvas

185cm x 134cm

2016

 

‘a pair of socks was hanging there together with my sweatshirt but

I haven't been running in ages’

acrylic on canvas

73cm x 54cm

2016

 

 

‘what do you say what do you say’

acrylic on canvas

92cm x 58cm

2016

 

‘or ratherthe paintings had unexpectedly slipped back on to the canvas and the unusual flush of pleasureso irresistible I could not resist’

acrylic on canvas

86cm x 57cm

2016

 

‘I should really go back and check on smith but I'll do that later’

acrylic on canvas

60cm x 40cm

2016

 

‘over my shoulder I seethere was smth I had dismissed’

acrylic on canvas

98cm x 74cm

2016

 

‘I'd been searching for ages but I realized when we drove through the hills and actually while I was quite sleeping, that this is it’

acrylic on canvas

65cm x 45cm

2016

 

‘maybe’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

 

‘I will tell you what I mean’

acrylic on canvas

60,5cm x 45,5cm

2016

‘Nostalgia with smth for everyone’

 

glaze painted clay

series of 69 plates


numbered and signed 2016