Roy Immanuel

Roy Immanuel’s work records time-based processes in painting, mixed media and sound, building installations out of images in series and site-specific sound pieces. The construction of both the audio and visual is approached in the same way, combining different elements or ideas in the same space, which then inform and subvert one another. These pieces explore audio and visual sampling and the use of feedback loops as a means of composition, where the results of past performance are reintroduced into the present. The language of painting, which by its own self-referential nature is already involved in a type of feedback loop, is used to build and take apart themes, forms and structures concurrently.

Using audio and visual references, either personal or factual, and various mediums as a stage on which to play out a series of experiments, his work explores themes relating to community, time and place and how ideology functions. Art production through sublimation is considered in his work with both a sense of farce and also a sincere wonder.