Ambient Haze - Gallery 46, Whitechapel

Solo Exhibition at Gallery 46 Whitechapel
18th October – 10th November 2024

Spectral Nation - Ambient Haze 
Improvised screen-printed monotypes, sonic translations

On display are new works from Spectral Nation’s Eraze Phaze, and Ambient Haze series, accompanied by audio arrangements created in response by selected electronic musicians. Also on show are collaged compositions using ‘byproduct’ masking papers, usually a discard of the process.

The screen-printed monotype works Eraze Phaze use an amalgam of techniques, in an improvised manner, with no fixed outcome. Hand pulled raw gestural first passes collide with smoother blended gradients. Layers of hand cut masking stencils clash and combine with discordant colour combinations, building texture and creating visual tension in increasingly complex, distorted, psychedelic scenes.

The Ambient Haze series are meditations on colour. Using a diffusion dither stencil technique to build up layers of gradients, expansive colour interactions arise. The half way line providing a reference point alluding to a horizon.

As sound and image combine, rhythmic structures within the sound works find visual echoes in the screen printed compositions, these audio progressions evoke chromatic depth. Within these sonic landscapes boundaries of perception become warped, colour vibrates and sound manifests as a visual texture.

Spectral Nation is a collaboration between Therese Vandling, Luke Frost and Jon Rundall.

With sound response by:

Kenichi Iwasa, Nik Void, Ultramarine,
Richard Fearless, The Maghreban, Mister Hongo