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‘More Please’ describes a transitional body of work in which the artist Matthew Prins moves from representational painting to finding an abstract visual language as a means towards spontaneity and play with colour and form.

His former representational subject matter is still present in the dense organic forms of grasses and everyday material debris. These transform into an unconstrained patterning, mediated by Prins’s design background and musical influences. The figurative form is repetitively deconstructed and reconfigured through the means of successive masking and colouring, to produce a …