Paul Kneale
Lives in London, UK
Paul Kneale’s art experiments with the digital image and the loss and retrieval of information which takes place online. The digital landscape is a key facet of his practice; Kneale explores the way in which it can be manifested and reimagined in the flesh of the physical object.
Recently, the artist has been manipulating scanners to function as a cameras. Rather than capturing an image, the scanner creates an impression of the ambient light within the artist’s studio, bearing the abstract visual trace of the space surrounding him.
Kneale lets the process manufacture the work; the scanner paintings are built up from unique impressions and displays multiple layers and striations between the transparent sheets, the colour and form harmonising according to the environmental light of the artist’s studio.
