Roland Hicks

(b 1967, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

These works offer different readings from different distances. From far away they appear as pieces of minimal geometric abstraction; a little closer and they might be considered found material assemblage pieces; closer still they reveal themselves as painted illusions; before at very close range returning; once more; to abstraction. “They are not based on direct observation of a pre-existent model; so are arguably works of pure (albeit deliberately limited) imagination