- ARTSLAVE
'Its not about you or me -its about the ART'
Pseudonyms are often used to hide an individual's real identitiy,as with writers 'pen names',graffiti artists 'tags',resistance fighters' or terrorists 'noms de guerre' and computer hackers 'handles'. Welcome to the world of Artslave the collaborative paintings of two Australian artists; where heaven meets hell,pain meets pleasure,the sun meets the moon, nothing is everything and everything is nothing.
Artslave's works follow no genre,no style and no code.Their work is a stage- a demonstration-an expression -a passing thought or phase. They are hunters searching for a meaning of everything through the language of paint. Their paintings are independent entities not objects attempting to imitate something else. If you want to experience an animal or mountain you can go and seek it out yourself, or if you want them to be represented you can have them photographed, so there is no reason to allow reality to plague the pictures.
Artslave creates these paintings by an intricate layering process, which involves nebulous shapes coated with brilliant synthetic resin finishes and the aplication of vibrant pigments which straddle the thin line between the seen and the unseen. Artslave's articulation of the image takes on various seductive abstract forms with dramatic stillness. Spiritual energies explode the canvas akin to the extravagance of opera.