FLORA! is a large-scale collaged painting, part of an ongoing body of work investigating the extractive character of colonialism and the persistence of its structures within contemporary institutions. Collage is employed extensively to incorporate the mundane and quotidian material evidence of a consumer culture, positioning these fragments at the intersection of lived experience and broader historical critique of what is considered ‘eco’ or ‘sustainable’. Often obliquely diaristic, the collected elements lend specificity to an otherwise abstract composition, activating planar spaces and joining gestures with tangible immediacy, graffiti-like marks also pointing to the presence of the urban realm in my work. Within this framework, the non-human emerges as both subject and witness, whilst the painting is also offering ideas about ‘found’ versus ‘made’, ‘unique’ versus ‘replication’, the art object as an icon, packaged, and the place of urbanity—most specifically urban signs—in a multilayered study of the significance of the dismissed, the average, the usual. . Size: 150x150cm Medium: Collage, acrylics, oil sticks, tape, card, wrapping paper, pastels and graphite on raw cotton canvas Ready to hang: no, ships rolled however a stretched option is available at extra cost - please contact me following the sale. Signature: verso, also signed Certificate in PDF format Year: 2025 Finish: silky varnish with UV protection Shipping: in a professionally packaged tube