Shanklin is an artist who explores the ways in which colour happens. Through structured stripes of fabric, the colours are given space to interact and vibrate with one another to create new colours and forms.

Inspired by artists such as Jim Lambie, Daniel Buren and Annie Albers, Shanklin has adopted the ubiquitous stripe pattern alongside conventional display methods to accentuate the power of colour within her abstract paintings.

David Batchelor’s book Chromophobia inspired Shanklin to challenge the fear of colour within Western societies and Richard Fardon’s research on colour within African visual culture encouraged Shanklin to question the meanings and associations of colours within a culture.

Through these imperfect acrylic and gouache stripes, Shanklin encourages the viewer to question what colour is happening, and as colour is subjective, what that colour means to them. Upon closer inspection, the edges of the painted fabric expose the natural fibres and contrast the intensity of the colours further.

For these paintings, form is not created through shapes or figures but simply though colour and materiality.

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