Collective Sublime

Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Exhibition 2024 – MA Fine Art

“Collective Sublime” is an interdisciplinary examination of identity, liminality and community within London’s underground rave scene. 

Through the merging of literal documentation and poetic expression, this series deconstructs the rave experience, illuminating its subtle psychological, social and spiritual dimensions.

Holistically, these works are expressions of escapism and rebellion, capturing intimate moments of liberation from oppressive social constructs through individual expression, ritualistic embodied movement and states of transpersonal awareness.  Each piece functions as a relic, crystallising the subculture in time, imbued with the artist’s personal relationship to it.

Collective Sublime (Moving Image, 5 minutes 28 seconds, 2024)
Sublimation (Moving Image, 7 minutes 11 seconds, 2024) featuring Tobias Iriah.
Clouds At Night (suede print on wooden panel, 2024)
Nightscape I (oil on canvas, 220x110cm, 2024)
Nightscape II (oil on canvas, 220x110cm, 2024)
Relic (oil and sheet metal on concrete and wood, 2024)
Relic (detail)
Ravers (ink drawing on metal, 2024)
Ravers (detail)
Lois (oil on canvas, 70x90cm)
Amphia (oil on canvas, 160x70cm)