Winner of the Hine Painting prize in 2022, Albano has developed his 'meta-painting' process over the last two years, focusing on brushstrokes that he creates from air-dry clay and studio waste. Manipulation of materiality is of great interest to the artist, and thus he also uses an industrial meat-slicer to fragment the brustrokes in this body of work, sometimes vacuum sealing his paintings to create works reminiscent of packaged supermarket meat.
Ultimately, Albano's practice forces us to examine our perception of what 'painting' is today, how matter is presented in the world, and how consumption processes infiltrate all aspects of our lives.
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