This abstract artwork features a striking monochrome composition of geometric shapes and patterns. The canvas is filled with a dynamic arrangement of circles, rectangles, and other bold forms that create a visually striking and rhythmic design. The artist employs a minimalist black and white palette, highlighting the interplay of positive and negative space. The overall style reflects the influence of Cubism and geometric abstraction, techniques that were characteristic of the modernist art movement. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to explore the fundamentals of visual perception and composition through a reductive, non-representational approach. ...
Bill Daggs’s practice unfolds across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, moving image, performance, and text—rooted in an immersive exploration of rhythm, memory, and social experience. His visual work is grounded in social observation—he reconstructs urban interactions, rituals, and atmospheres purely from memory, without reference photographs. This method gives his paintings a spontaneous, layered quality, where traces of previous iterations remain visible, creating a narrative sediment. Sampling, looping, and archival techniques from his background in music inform his multidisciplinary approach. These sonic strategies act as a language of re-creation, weaving word, rhythm, and cultural fragments into his visual compositions to generate emotional resonance and narrative multiplicity. Text in his paintings—often written backwards—functions as a visual texture rather than literal communication, encouraging viewers to derive personal meaning from the work. Daggs’s process remains instinctive rather than formulaic, continually evolving through experimentation and the blending of disciplines—a creative impulse resistant to fixed categories. ...
Studio/Chapple is a contemporary art gallery and project space in Deptford, South-East London. Positioned at the intersection between contemporary emerging art, club culture and sonic production, the gallery activates a unique conversation that highlights the relationship between sonic and and visual artistic ecologies.
