‘SOMETIMES ITS DIFFICULT EVEN FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I’VE BECOME. AND HARDER STILL TO REMEMBER WHAT I ONCE WAS.’
Painting to me exists not just as a language of self-expression but also as a means of self-understanding. Personal experience exists as the subject of each work, exploring various responses and sensations through the generation of multiple artistic iterations. Mark making functions as a process of constant back and forth; a studio practice of ongoing negotiation, revision and repetition. This process inquires into the self, an archaeology that seeks to bring the complexity of life as it is experienced into light. Each painting becomes a confession; a journey through art in search of truth and meaning, the resolution of which comes at the moment of surrender to the simplicity of my being. The world as I see it; my world, becomes the subject as it is positioned against myself.
Edward Roach (b. 2001) approaches art-making as an active site and method of self-understanding. A sustained inquiry into subjective experience through the production of art, each artwork becomes an object of cultural value, items of tangible and exchangeable content that exist as commodities of intersubjective communication. With a current emphasis on large scale landscape painting, each work becomes a view of an internal perspective made outwards; a place where I can spin the World around myself. That to me is the power of painting. For each painting can teach me something new about myself; for each painting to tell a story of who I am.
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