Time On My Hands

Exploring perceptual shifts in space and time catalysed by new technologies, Richard Blackwell’s dynamic and experimental studio practice melds painting, printmaking, digital automation and analogue fabrication to form graphic compositions in three-dimensional relief. Blackwell’s works envision a future where virtual and tangible worlds are seamlessly intertwined, moving between areas of engineered precision and more nuanced, painterly gestures that impart a softer tactility. While drawing on the bold geometric forms of early modernism, the artist also echoes that era’s optimism for new, machine-age possibilities in his embrace of digital technologies, automation and the glitchy visual cues of our screen-based reality. The high-octane architectural wall works comprising ‘Time On My Hands’  bring a graphic, futurist dimension as they hang alongside a suite of framed works on paper.