From the studio: Ethan Cook

Using stock colours of pre-dyed cotton, Cook weaves the cotton into canvas on a four-harness floor loom. The woven canvas is then sewn together using various rule-based systems that determine mark making and composition, generally creating colour field-like abstractions. Various aspects of the weaving process along with sewing and stretching become gestures in themselves, the artist's hand present in an otherwise standardised industrial process. Using only canvas as the entirety for the composition, Cook hopes to engage with narratives of abstraction, scale, logic, colour, beauty, and the post-modern problem of what can still be done with a blank canvas.