Extracted Geometries

Extracted Geometries is an ongoing series of shaped paintings that occupy a space between painting, sculpture and image.

Each work begins with a fragment extracted from an existing visual structure. Cropped, isolated and reconfigured, these forms are translated into physical objects whose edges become inseparable from the image they contain.

The paintings explore ideas of perception, abstraction and displacement. Familiar visual languages are reduced to partial geometries that remain recognisable while resisting complete identification. Suspended between object and image, the works invite a continual movement between looking at a form and looking through it.

Constructed from layered surfaces and industrial materials, the series extends Paul Hosking’s wider interest in spatial illusion, material transformation and the instability of visual meaning.