Sculpture 1 & 2, 2019

I looked through my collection of photographs and came across this image I’d taken on a site visit to the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. I was scanning the museum with a view to inserting my painting into the space and had taken countless snaps of spaces and objects there. I cropped in on this Roman bust made it monochrome and played around with levels until it appeared to have this silverprint look. I was looking at old books of sculptures with black and white photos that seem so evocative in themselves and I’d wanted to try a monochrome for a while.

— Andrew Grassie, 2020