Myles Painter
"This is how space begins, with words only, signs on the blank page"1
I work across a broad range of mediums such as sculpture, installation, video and arranged events, relevant to the critical understanding of the discourse of architectural spaces, be they physical or imaginary. At present my practice deals with the history of site-specific and architecturally significant spaces. The architecture with which I am concerned is the kind of architecture that offers up stories of its history and present incarnation through its inhabitation and social relevance. From this I aim to re-represent and transform the information discovered by research into suggestions of alternate spatial narratives through means of any medium that I feel is relevant.
My practice employs the role of a conversation or story, whether imagined, fictional or genuine, between the inhabitant and their space. My work can take many guises and is influenced greatly by significant contemporary art histories. I see a strong link between art and architecture and endeavour to articulate this through my own immediate experiences and in-depth research into both areas. By manipulating and exploiting precise realities of and social issues surrounding architecture and art I aim to use my own conceptual narrative to control a discourse of these suggested other-spaces and ideas.