Author: msp.adm@joshuaobaranorwood

Quiet Hours (2024) is a composition of a street scene in Hong Kong which has been transferred from photography to a textile. By transferring the image into textile it becomes an entirely different image entirely as it is no longer a photograph but more of an impression and has been imbued with the softness of…

GRB [V and VII] (2025) is an explosion of energy that occupies the vast space of the composition violently with the power of the explosion while also offering a reminder of what was once a massive star and the engagement with this power. Before being turned into digital works- these were inverted Indian ink drawings…

Aria (2024) is an extraordinarily chaotic composition of still lives and animals that have been abstracted and transformed into more singular dimensional planes through lines and solid blocks of colour. The entire composition is black and white and this allows for the viewer to see the foundational forms of the still life rather than its…

Ritual Cut (2009), as the title suggests, cuts into the land creating a ceremonial cross. These cross-shaped interventions are 4.5 x 60 x 75 meters and the geometricity of them suggests more of a ritualistic precision rather than a random cut. The cuts are not for decorative purposes and serve as a reminder of where…

Window (2024) is a textile installation that seems as though it’s about to collapse- its structure looks similar to a web and is surrounded by leaves and great shadows allowing the work to be both a part of the scene yet also out of place. The strands of this installation are pulled out of the…

Black Sea (2025) is an atmospheric painting in which the dark sea reflects the moonlight continously shifting and changing yet staying in the same form: water. The sea has been changed from a location to more of a state- of time. The flowing of the waves may seem peaceful but they are always in a…

In Midnight Reflection at Ommaney Road (2024), the woman sits in a Victorian bay room which has been framed in the room symmetrically against the windows in the centre. Her face does not show any emotion as she glares at us calmly yet cold. There are five cards in front of her across the green…

Botanical Embrace (2024) is a meditative composition yet also has a sense of tension that is rising. The lower section includes numerous finely detailed line illustrations of flora which are delicate and seem to suggest that this forest grows from the memory of the tree itself. Furthermore, the tree ring itself not only registers history…