Persistent Matter

Persistent Matter examines the human search for order and the role our constructed environments play in negotiating interior realities. Rooted in the artist's own formative experiences, the work begins from the proposition that reality is neither fixed nor singular, but continually constructed through the reciprocal relationship between memory, perception, architecture and the body. Personal experience is both the origin of the enquiry and the means through which broader questions of human experience are explored.

Working across painting, sculpture, installation and works on paper, Wooller creates visual essays in which recurring motifs, material residue and spatial relationships operate as forms of enquiry rather than illustration. Doors, rooms, gardens, chalk outlines and domestic objects become thinking devices through which the work investigates the coexistence of care and neglect, order and instability, protection and vulnerability, revealing how experience becomes embedded within both material and psychological space.

Selected works from the Series: