Torn

Torn (2025) aims to explore the idea of the street poster through an abstract body of work. The works consist of newsprint and acrylic paint on canvas that have been torn, layered and glued together. Street posters play an important role in making up the fabric of urban space, concealing and revealing activities and local tastes.

 ‘Posters are continuously effaced, covered, degraded and yet they persist, building in layers, writing and overwriting the local cultural history of a place’’ (Jensen, 2009). 

In effect, street posters serve as cultural markers of a place. These works are made through a process of collaging, adding and subtracting layers to create palimpsests. Found materials are ‘translated’ back and forth, concealed and revealed. In this exhibition, there are clues and references to imagined street posters, an ode to the ubiquitous street posters that are layered away over time.