Andy Collins’ paintings pop with delectable planes of colour. Working from photographs taken at fashion shoots, the artist’s abstracted forms are derived from the overlooked pleats and creases made by both fabric and the models’ bodies. For each painting, Collins takes several months to painstakingly erase and smooth out any trace of brushwork, resulting in fields of sleek paint; his is a process of almost obsessive fixation. Painted in 2002, Untitled undulates with antiseptic pink and mimosa yellow, unknowable shapes bound by thin lines that unfold outwards from the origami-like centre. Collins’ biomorphic composition is intimate, yet little beyond the surface is revealed. With its impenetrable façade and refusal to be marked by the artist’s hand, Untitled is at once biological and mechanical, and the forceful yet unknowable implication of the image is mesmerizingly seductive.
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