Morgan Veness is a contemporary conceptual artist working across multidisciplinary practices, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. His work explores perception, pattern, and the phenomenology of attention through materially modest, process-led approaches that are realised on reclaimed surfaces. Often employing earthy tones, geometric structures, and culturally resonant materials, Veness creates works that merge ancient visual languages with contemporary conceptual concerns. His practice sits at the intersection of contemplative post-minimal material strategies, and investigations into how images arise in consciousness.
Veness treats the artwork as a site of mental attention rather than pure representation. He frequently utilises transitional, protective, and recyclable objects – materials imbued with temporality and prior cultural memory. This strategy situates his practice within contemporary eco-conscious reuse, post-minimal material awareness, and an arte povera–like sensitivity to humble materials, where meaning is carried as much by material history as by visual form.
Furthermore, the work engages with key concerns such as how perception constructs meaning, the tension between the external object and internal experience, and the artwork as an event unfolding over time. In this sense, Veness’s works are less concerned with depiction and more with staging the act of perception itself, inviting viewers into a contemplative encounter where attention, material, and image gradually come into alignment.
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