(b.1984, London, UK) Piers Alsop's practice incorporates painting, drawing and collage in which themes of impermanence, ruin, and the artifice of painting exist in an ongoing dialogue with art history. His paintings consider ways in which a two-dimensional surface can be inhabited, employing a pared back aesthetic, a considered 'slouchiness' and generous negative space. Drawn to ordinary scenes - roads, gardens, buildings, interiors, piers and landscapes - his stylised compositions oscillate between a gentle humour and the anxiety of decline. Collaged fragments - such as burlap offcuts, used sandpaper, commercial packaging, and dried up paint - are stapled, pinned, or glued into place, reinforcing a sense that the whole image could perish at any moment. They act almost as postscripts to the painting, modest reminders of the process of their making.
Alsop hopes to create transitory moments suspended in time, held in a state of ambiguity. An ongoing duel between fragile contradictions, vulnerable perimeters, rhythmic repetition, moribund murmurs, the sacred & profane.