Grudzinskas possess and deploys a wide range of painterly techniques, with his work displaying a quiet tension between positive and negative gestures - between movements loaded with media spread across the painting's surface, and differing processes of erasure and removal. Playing off diametrically opposed values is further continued in contrasting flatness and depth, and diffuse sprays with crisp lines, which is heightened through a limited, almost monochromic, palette. Through these various procedures of application and cancellation, Grudzinskas’ liminal traces mirror the aesthetic and experience of contemporary urbanity.
Like a graffiti-filled city wall that has been sprayed, buffed, tagged and plastered with posters and all manner of paraphernalia ad infinitum, Grudzinskas’ paintings are almost geological in their accretion of conflicting and contradictory traces of the artist’s presence, through mediated gestures that initially appear somewhat removed from ‘painting’ and the ‘hand of the artist’. Creation, destruction, entropy and a harmonious disequilibrium are defining characteristics of Grudzinskas’ paintings. His paintings are defined as much by what they are not, and what they hold back, as much as what they are - what they reveal and hide from the viewer.
To preview available work click here To request a catalogue of exhibition and available works click This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ziggy Grudzinskas was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1982, and currently lives and works in London. Grudzinskas graduated from the Royal Academy Schools of Art, London, in 2015, and Camberwell College of the Arts, London, in 2010. Recent exhibitions include The Earth is Our Radio, KARST, Plymouth; The Unreal Never Lived, NAM Projects, Milan; It is Heavy or Is it Light?, Assembly Point, London; I can because You Do, Rochini, London. Grudzinskas was awarded the Hiscox Scholarship Prize, Royal Academy School, London, and the JM Finn Study Bursary, Royal Academy of Art London

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