“Studio Work” is an ongoing project that involves the production of a series of motivational text-based paintings that are displayed in the artist’s studio and used to encourage further studio-based art production. Beyond creating a superficial need for keeping a studio space, “Studio Work” examines the role of the studio and physical labour in creative production. The text works also reference motivational posters for workplaces and thereby draws a parallel between an office environment and an artist’s studio. The obvious and sad irony of “Studio Work” is that the meticulous and time-consuming hand-painted works being churned out in the artist’s small and pathetic studio does not go beyond the motivational, and therefore never results in the production of the kind of artwork that the texts refer to.

Studio Work, 2004
C-Print, 36″ x 36″

Studio Work, 2007
C-Print, 36″ x 36″

Studio Work (Or Gallery), 2009
C-Print, 36″ x 20″

Details of “Studio Work”