Scott Gardiner

Appropriating an aesthetic of minimalist abstraction, these motorways and dams so loaded with symbolic content, are reduced to their formal qualities and composed within fields of colour - incorporating the dominant visual language of late modernism, heralded by proponents such as Clement Greenburg as representing the high point of a century of artistic experimentation. By juxtaposing these seemingly incongruous elements I am drawing parallels between the demise of artistic utopias and our collective awakening to the consequences of unchecked faith in the abilities of industry and technology to 'advance' the world toward a better future; evokeing nostalgia for a time of collective certainty while highlighting our individual march toward the unknown.