'Occurrent' - Something that occurs as distinguished from something that continues to exist.
Occurrent is an abstract view of an imaginary world. A world informed by the trappings of a closed space. It is a space between walls and frequented by people. What remains inside this space is invisible, but over time, it becomes contaminated by human presence, which fills the room with palpable energies.At first glance, Joe’s drawings strike up a graphic immediacy and playfulness, with frequent shifts between chaos and calm. Intrigued by the unknown and the unseen, his subject matter and its meaning is left deliberately elusive and complex behind the abstract forms, These are drawn as a filigree of discordant linear marks, stretching and retracting: a magnificent madness of dancing debris that morph and manoeuvre, captured through an animated stillness.The lines are applied in different widths, lengths, weights and forces, revealing the various depths of the currents integral to this ongoing body of work. In more recent drawings, we are offered scaled-up works that possess a greater thrust of movement and power, in contrast to the softer, finer, almost ornamental pencil drawings on paper. Interspersed with floating ‘reflectors’ that pierce the composition as windows to other worlds, they display a dynamic shift into new territory for Joe, who attempts to capture the moment that a thought emerges and then evaporates. They may read as elegant or wasted, valiant or vile, walking the fine line between two forces set in play that often question one another.Joe investigates mind-mapping through various media — painting, collage, sound, sculpture — but it is with drawing that Joe has realised the greatest potential to explore and realise this idea. He has exhibited in Australia, Switzerland, France and Slovakia and has works in national and international private collections. Two sound pieces were acquired in 2012 by the Institut du Monde Arabe (World Arab Institute), Paris for their permanent collection.
Joe currently lives and works in Sydney.
Occurrent is an abstract view of an imaginary world. A world informed by the trappings of a closed space. It is a space between walls and frequented by people. What remains inside this space is invisible, but over time, it becomes contaminated by human presence, which fills the room with palpable energies.At first glance, Joe’s drawings strike up a graphic immediacy and playfulness, with frequent shifts between chaos and calm. Intrigued by the unknown and the unseen, his subject matter and its meaning is left deliberately elusive and complex behind the abstract forms, These are drawn as a filigree of discordant linear marks, stretching and retracting: a magnificent madness of dancing debris that morph and manoeuvre, captured through an animated stillness.The lines are applied in different widths, lengths, weights and forces, revealing the various depths of the currents integral to this ongoing body of work. In more recent drawings, we are offered scaled-up works that possess a greater thrust of movement and power, in contrast to the softer, finer, almost ornamental pencil drawings on paper. Interspersed with floating ‘reflectors’ that pierce the composition as windows to other worlds, they display a dynamic shift into new territory for Joe, who attempts to capture the moment that a thought emerges and then evaporates. They may read as elegant or wasted, valiant or vile, walking the fine line between two forces set in play that often question one another.Joe investigates mind-mapping through various media — painting, collage, sound, sculpture — but it is with drawing that Joe has realised the greatest potential to explore and realise this idea. He has exhibited in Australia, Switzerland, France and Slovakia and has works in national and international private collections. Two sound pieces were acquired in 2012 by the Institut du Monde Arabe (World Arab Institute), Paris for their permanent collection.
Joe currently lives and works in Sydney.
