Steven Aalders: Act (yellow)

Steven Aalders: Act (yellow)Steven Aalders is known for his meticulous hand made abstract oil paintings, in which the heritage of modernism of Mondrian and the American Minimal Art has been processed. His work is an attempt to embody the essence, to create light and space through paint. Also to remap the tradition of history of art. Modernist serial principles such as repetition and sameness are both connected to older traditions in Western art and Eastern abstract art. His use

Paper Size: 53 x 25 cm

5 cm Medium: screenprint Edition Size: Open edition Year: 2011

All income raised is reinvested directly into the making and presentation of art

What may start as a mundane observation can blossom into something very different

The explosion in the background elaborates this dichotomy and can be read as either the ‘big bang’ or a burst of celestial light

Commissioned at the time of his solo exhibition at Peacock in 2012

Adam embraces the everyday object finding inspiration from the colouring book image

BAFTA winning animators Greg and Myles McLeod exhibited at Peacock Visual Arts in 2009

and then I remembered the large screen beds at Peacock (where I had been working for several years) and the idea of screen printing the whole thing in sections arrived

the icon and the banner

Two etchings

taking influence from what may ordinarily go unnoticed