Hover # 201913, Paul Snell (#049)

Hover # 201913
Year: 2019
Paul Snell
80cm x 80cm
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglass

Check out Paul's work on Instagram: @psnell1

Paul Snell is an abstract artist who’s digital techniques to explore the possibilities of abstraction and minimalism in contemporary photo-media. He lives and works in Launceston, Tasmania.

The work investigates the transformation of photographic modes of production and the manipulation and exploitation of data to invent new visual forms. By rhythmically repeating, pairing, overlapping, reversing and sequencing through the investigations of specific colour relationships, he seeks a sensory understanding of the physical object. These pieces are not representations of certain realities; they are their own reality.

Snell shares the aesthetic and conceptual concerns of 20th century modernist painters, while taking the 21st century digital image as a material starting point. His work explores and exploits the emotive and evocative effects of colour, both in an ocular sense and a physical one – as we stand in front of these works, our eyes seeking an entry point to the abstract and minimalist compositions, the matte surfaces absorb light and seem to absorb us as well.