Fine Art

Arjun Singh Shekhawat

Fine Art display of blue material in front of window beneath cross

"Blue Blood" - made for an exhibition in the 900-year-old leper chapel in Cambridge. This artwork talks about the violence insinuated for the sake of religion, when all the religions talk about peace.

This artwork expands painting beyond the frame and into the space around it. The walls are draped with a mixture of both new and previously used canvas, bringing together past works, new material, and the architecture of the room. Large fluid brushstrokes of acrylic colour move across the surfaces, dripping and staining the canvas to connect separate fragments into one immersive environment.

The work considers painting as something that can be entered, walked around and physically experienced, and not just viewed from a distance. A sculptural structure sits within the space, made from old art shop wooden canvas stretchers, creating a contrast between the loose, flowing canvas on the walls and the rigid lines of the stretcher frame.

Fine art piece of white canvas splashed with red paint
Fine art piece with large sheet of paper running with black paint dribbles
Fine art piece of lue, red and orange paint, the central square removed and stuck on wall next to it
Splat. A painting installation exploring themes like layers and negative space. This work also talks about impermanence in installation and how the artwork ceases to exist once it is taken down from the gallery. Drip. This work was done for the Interim show and represents the impermanence as the artwork was created in the space for the space and destroyed when the exhibition was done.Spill. This artwork was created on the theme of negative space. It expands on what is left behind when be take away a ‘finished piece’.