Untitled

With its reflective aluminium surface, Untitled (2012) is a vivid, optically-entrancing work on board by Dominic Beattie. Situating his paintings ‘somewhere between hard edge and expressive abstraction’, the London-based artist uses unconventional domestic materials including tape, marker pens, scraps of plywood, stickers and household paints, embracing them for their immediacy and raw effects. From these basic resources, Beattie forges a language that plays with the legacy of Modernist abstraction, Op Art and Minimalism, fusing this heritage with his interests in Pop culture, underground comix and tribal imagery. He builds up layers before cutting through them and rearranging these fragments into new combinations, working without any predetermined sense of the overall composition. ‘I get to the studio early and begin by looking at works made at my last visit’, he explains; ‘I start trying to make them better, maybe cutting them up and re-gluing them back together in an alternative configuration, or just spray painting over the whole thing and starting again… Sometimes it's a fast process and the painting’s surface will be flat, other times they are very layered and have gone through many transformations’. With a practice that also encompasses illustration and furniture design, Beattie featured in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2014 exhibition New Order II: British Art Today.
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