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Recent Works My name is Ryan Hays, i am a scottish contemporary artist, I recently graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone college of art in 2006.
My work explores our relationship with time, growth and development. Our own concepts of memory and key events in our lives are often twisted and incomplete, contorting themselves over time. What’s left over is often more abstract than specific, an appropriation of our hopes, expectations and influences. I paint on glass in an attempt to capture or preserve moments outside the normal manipulative conditions of our memory. Acrylic paint is applied heavily to the rear of the glass one colour at a time, then left to dry and details are gradually scraped and scratched off the glass. When viewed from the front this removal technique reveals a very exact and ‘unpainted’ aesthetic that appears machine made.
On first viewing the work will appear calculated yet incomplete, precise but without solid form. On closer inspection, any sense or implication of the figurative gives way to simple abstract form and colour. This is an attempt to visualise how our memories at first feel complete and concise, but the further we dig, we realise how fractured it really is. Instead of ‘seeing’ our memories we ‘feel’ them. I explore the belief that not only does memory play a significant role in defining who we are, but that living in the modern world creates desperate gap between what we remember and what we actually experience.
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Chance
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Moment page
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Withdrawn
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Arrangement
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