‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’

The series ‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ is continuing to be realised from articulating previously discarded waste materials from the fabrication process of manufacture found in industrial and educational settings.

In the process of accessing and recycling what could be considered as found ready-made physical artefacts of this industrial waste, an unexplored creative potential is recognised and intentionally explored as a starting point in the creation of new artwork.

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #14

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 62 x 32 x 3.5cm

2026

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #15

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 61 x 32 x 3.5cm

2026

Working in response to the found artefacts as an intervention from what I see, layer upon layer of the discarded machined material is reappropriated and what was previously unobserved as a creative potential resulting from the initial fabrication becomes more perceptible. In the methodology of observation, reflection and application in my studio based practice, the origins of the intended fabrication become lost and are replaced by a composite mediation where an immediacy of depth, reliefs and voids move beyond the familiar in an abstraction of shape and form. This process interprets the source of the ready-made and the creative process venturing further into the relationship of painting and sculpture, juxtaposing and combining flat 2D abstractions with negative space and reliefs, that finds an immediate and distinct corelation between the two.

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #16

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 61 x 32 x 3.5cm

2026

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #12

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 32 x 31 x 2.5cm

2022

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #7

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 61 x 32.5 x 2.5cm

2017

Rendered in monochrome, the emphasis in this series ‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ is on abstraction in composition and the use of ready-made materials to realise this. Line, shape and form are conceived in the depth and relief of individual layers that by chance and intention are configured, merging and combining as light is absorbed and reflected. This results in an on-going development of a subjective abstraction that emerges throughout this series of works.  

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption’ #3

bas-relief: acrylic on found machined plywood

dimensions: 31 x 34 x 1.5cm

2016

‘colour, form, reflection and absorption #’3 and #7 were both shown at the Manchester School of Art ‘Legacy’ alumni exhibition in 2017, involving and celebrating the work of over 20 previous Manchester School of Art students.

©️ Gary James Williams