Darren McMorran

Date: July 2022
Exhibition/Show Type: Solo
Media: Painting

Exhibition Description

“My work is not about literal observations but experiences as I have remembered them. I paint the range and flux of human experience as I recall it because I want an intense and personal relationship with my work. Through memories, I can express human experience via my own perceptions – absorbed, filtered and rearranged. This process can take days or years, but with time each painting gains meaning and shape, with every mark representing a metaphor for a lived experience.”

“Evoking human presence is important to me. Brightly coloured dots, swirling patterns, thick stripes, pencil scribbles and cracked paint all combine to tell a story of an encounter with an individual or group, while dribbles, droplets and scratches are not accidental but add to a narrative about people and their relationship with the world around them.”