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  • Deleuze, Painting and the Case for Abstract Art

    “…it is more or less half a century since Bacon discovered his ‘system’. How does Deleuze’s text on Bacon, 50 years later, become useful to contemporary painting?…

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    Conference Paper
    2019
  • The Diagrammatic Surface of Painting

    “One reason, perhaps, for never having been tempted to explore the ‘expanded field’ of painting is that, for me, the flat and bounded surface has always been…

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    Conference Paper
    2016
  • ‘The Façade Within’: notes for a paper given at The Dark Precursor an International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research, Ghent, 2015

    The painting is finished and it is a static object – this is a fact but still it can’t be fully known. Inside perception there is an…

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    Conference Paper
    2015
  • The Picture Plane and the Page: Moments of Order in Painting/Writing

    “…How might this ‘logic of sensation’ relate to the challenges of the current milieu; one in which questions about figuration and abstraction do not dominate questions of…

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    Conference Paper
    2015

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