Aaron Alexander Smyth

a way / a lone, a last / a loved, a long the       

Polychromos pencil drawing, archival digital print, mild steel.

Red in all its excesses, readings and relations.
For me, this focus on, and reduction of, colour bracketed the viewing experience and emphasised colours’ integral role in the formation of meaning. Here, red signals something visceral; it’s intended to incite, set against cold, monochromatic metals and rhythmic, meditative linework in the drawn image. It talks of the body, in an equally seductive and fragile way.

Steel pierces the elements together, certainly reminiscent of some form of weapon. However, I primarily see these as representations of time and its trajectories, folding and fixing elements together at specific points, always to bear the mark of time occurrence. These two works, unfixed, rely on balance forged between the piercing point and their inert weight. Many readings towards the artwork’s meaning lie in this idea

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These works were featured in Swatchedx Blush in the PipeFactory, Glasgow (An exhibition series curated ‘one colour at a time’ by Blake Ballard and Louise Campion) and GSAx HFBK, The Glue Factory, Glasgow.