Weaving together poetry, time and craft, Martin’s new suite of works continue the artist’s interest in using painting as a platform to rearrange given structures. Martin incorporates various stitching and weaving techniques to reshuðe the natural order and appearance of a painting.

Sitting between painting and textiles, handmade and machine made, Martin's works live between categories. Splicing together repetition, circumstance and decoration the picture plane acts as a vessel for glimpses of objects, atmospheres and writing compositions to enter into the work at any given time. Inviting the viewer to slow down and observe the dense, optically charged and labour-intensive compositions.

Found materials such as tulle, gauze, linen, fruit and washing bags are intertwined with laborious sewing. While elevating humble approaches to art and craft which act as a set of limitations to process, a certain freedom is arrived at. All of these decisions are stacked on top of one another but remain visible for the viewer to approach simultaneously. Martin’s eight works investigate the process of housing and harmonising a myriad of disparate ideas.