As a digital native artist, Outerground works with photocollage & digital painting. Street photography and audio recordings are central to informing more intimate, observational works, capturing fleeting moments and the textures of everyday life. A fascination with science and the tools of looking; microscopes, telescopes & magnifying lenses informs a visual language that’s complex, layered, connecting the personal to broader, universal ideas. Cities, people and natural systems contribute to a rich body of static work that explores how we see, sense, and make meaning from the world around us.
HOME combines elements from NASA public archive imagery with artist’s photography to produce a series of pop-art style images, exploring iconic moments from the space race & reflections on our collective self perception due to advancements in astronomy.
HOME Extended – A series of square format photocollages from NASA archive materials, combining mission control, flight vehicles & crew elements in one shot to tell stories of iconic moments in the early days of space flight, Mercury / Apollo missions.
FOCALISM – A series of digital paintings based on street photography as primary source. Attempting to recreate peripheral vision and object focus, the impressionistic style references vision perception that produces a type of procedurally mapped world.
Wavelength – From a series entitled quantum, this collection of abstract digital paintings explores notions of quantum electrodynamics, which are often difficult or impossible to visualise. Physics as a discipline which attemtps to organise the universe into rational principle provides fertile ground for artistic inquiry.
