Title: Detail shot: Memory II

Year: 2017

Media: Oil on canvas

Size:  30 x 23 cm

Bio: Born 1976 in Johanessburg, Selma Parlour's meticulous oil paintings appear as though they're drawn, dyed, or printed. Alongside her delicately-shaded bands and pencil-thin (oil-made) lines, colour is a veil (not a skin) imitating the backlit quality of the screen and ensuring that every decision is evident. The London-based artist is known for her units of luminous colour, diagrammatic space, codified illusion, haptic surfaces (where the weave of the linen ground is a pictorial component), and her abstract-paintings-of-photography's-installation-shot-of-abstract-painting.