André Hemer

André Hemer brings together the new world of digital media with old traditional painting in colourful collage-like, tactile abstract works on canvas. His work, which has been shown in galleries across Australasia as well as in Europe and Asia, plays on complicated tensions around representation, blurring the lines between dematerialised digital manipulation and the physical painted object.

Distinctively complex technically, the artist's underlying process involves using a scanner outdoors to scan thick painterly blobs created with acrylic pigments. These are combined and manipulated in a digital image; the interplay of both sunlight and LED lights from the scanner creates the impression of digitally created forms. Reclaiming the work from the digital realm the artist prints the images so he can apply different layers of paint on top. These range from spray paint to brushed oil or acrylic, and sometimes the original acrylic blobs. The resultant image is a 'hyper-realistic' form of abstraction characterised by ambiguous but seemingly life-like forms. 

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