WHAT BONDS ARE THESE?

The works in what bonds are these? circle around an ongoing exploration of an ancient Danish weaving technique called Sprang.

Sprang is made with only warp or vertical threads, bound together in a kind of extended braid. The resulting material is saggy, stretchy, pliable and encompassing. Stuart uses the material and the process of it’s making as a kind of extruded painting support, a support that literally and metaphorically pushes at the boundaries of the rectangle and de-faces the grid. The material limitations of traditional painting – support, canvas, ground and pigment, are simultaneously a constraint and an embrace.