In modern life, the grid is everywhere.It could be said that it dictates the pattern of our lives. When we decide whether or not to use technology, we’re either on the grid or off it. The grid controls energy consumption. It stores information. Graphic designers worship the grid as an organising principle for print layouts, advertisements, and websites. City streets form urban grids. We digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids. The grid, as Rosalind Krauss wrote, “logically speaking… extends, in all directions, to infinity”.

For me, the grid is in particular, the emblem of universal administration, imposing its universality and uniformity on everything, geometrically dividing things irrespective of their differences, intellectually homogenising them despite their heterogeneity. Post-Modern art reflects such social ‘pessimism’ in its tendency to inorganic structure.

My intention is for my paintings to breathe some life into the inorganic ‘grid’ without denying its dominance, but equally celebrating the ‘individual’ and unique amongst the similarities.