SOUR DREAMS
10 April - 10 May 2025
Artist Statement
The Painting Mill is a contraption devised by Dodd, cobbled together from various household, shed-found and DIY parts such as cordless drills, rollerblades and bicycles, which are operated via remote control. The Painting Mill, which is a significant and ongoing project, is often performative in its presentation whilst also pursuing painted outcomes that can be engaging in their own right
About this iteration, Dodd shares: “The Painting Mill outcomes are often saturated, saccharine, dense and fecund. I am regularly driven by colour, my own innate responses to colours and the potential to stimulate via intensity. States of amplification, hallucination and the hyper are all happy play zones for me.
Whilst making these works, my imaginings have been towards psychological potentials of colours, psychic messaging of compositions and fantasies of juicy, shimmering psychedelic mirages. The titles for this suite of outcomes are deliberately visceral and explore colours as links to emotions, deep sensations, and the unconscious.”