Joseph Daws 24 June - 12 July 2025
StillLifeandtheAbstractMachine
In this exhibition, I present two poles of my artistic practice: the contemplative stillness of traditional oil-painted still life, and the dynamic emergence of digital abstraction. Though visually and materially distinct, both modes are rooted in a sustained inquiry into systems— whether perceptual, procedural, or conceptual.
The still life works are grounded in the historical language of observation and representation. They explore the act of looking, the play of light across form, and the quiet tension between presence and absence. Each painting accumulates moments into timeless form—a distillation of reality, shaped by deliberate choices of placement, colour, and brushwork.
By contrast, the digital works are born from code—sets of instructions, parameters, and probabilities. Here, I shift from hand to algorithm, creating custom visual engines that generate images through logic and randomness. These are not predesigned images but emergent forms, unfolding through what Deleuze and Guattari call an “abstract machine”—a set of invisible relations that shape potential outcomes without dictating specific content. The resulting visuals occupy an undefined space, resisting stable form while suggesting shifting terrains or structures not yet realised. These works operate in a suspended visual register—neither grounded nor fully abstract—where forms seem to emerge from a vaporous logic, mutable and atmospheric. They conjure a kind of digital weather: patterns without contour, images without figure—a drifting cloud of potential that never fully settles. Together, these two practices reflect on the tension between stasis and emergence, material and immaterial, hand and system. They are complementary modes of inquiry, each revealing different aspects of form, composition, perception, and the architectures underlying creation.
Joe Daws
2.StilllifewithOranges , 2025, Oil on Canvas, 34.5 x 40.5 cm, $2000
3.Stilllifewith
8.StilllifewithCamellia,2025, Oil on Canvas, 34.5 x 40.5 cm, $2000
, 2025,
11.AbstractMachine,–202501091045,2025
SwissQ Aluminium Print
42 x 59.4 cm
$1150
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84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
12.AbstractMachine–2025010915182025
SwissQ Aluminium Print
42 x 59.4 cm
$1150
ed. of 5
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84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
13. Abstract Machine, – 2025010915012025
42 x 59.4 cm
ed. of 5
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84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
14. Abstract Machine, – 202501211123, 2025
SwissQ Aluminium Print
42 x 59.4 cm
$1150 ed. of 5
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84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
15.AbstractMachine,–202501211158,2025
SwissQ Aluminium Print
42 x 59.4 cm
$1150
ed. of 5
Also available
84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
17.AbstractMachine–202502022344,2025
SwissQ Aluminium Print
42 x 59.4 cm
$1150
ed. of 5
Also available
84.1 x 59.4cm $1500
118.9 x 84.1cm $2000
18.AbstractMachine,– 202503261212, 2025 Giclee Print on Canvas,
76 x 60 cm
$1450
ed. of 5 Also available
50 x 40cm $1135
125 x 100cm $2100
140 x 111 cm $2350
19.AbstractMachine,–202503232156, 2025
Giclee Print on Canvas
140 x 111 cm
$2350 ed. of 5
Also available
50 x 40cm $1135
76 x 60cm $1450
20.AbstractMachine–202503221632,2025
Giclee Print on Canvas
76 x 60 cm
$1450
ed. Of 5
Also available
50 x 40cm $1135
125 x 100cm $2100
140 x 111 cm $2350
