Ed Lust creates traditional & digital art in Aotearoa.

Creative work spanning painting, photography, and film, united by a fascination with the existential tensions of the cosmic, the natural, and the personal.

Making art

that mines the

personal in search of

the cosmic

and the absurd.

More than ever, I am enjoying the challenges of crafting complicated, pored-over art objects that can shake up a space.

My particulate paintings start with a will to illustrate a dynamic or theory, such as gravity, accretion, dispersion, and develop intuitively through layering and surface archaeology, building forms slowly, sometimes over years.

In the past I have compared their creation to the workings of a rock pool, though I am not interested in the faithful depiction of natural phenomena but, instead, building abstract anomalies that can lure in a certain kind of viewer and not let them go.


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