Artist: Pio Abad

Location: London, United Kingdom

Short Bio:

A graduate of the prestigious Glasgow School of Art, Abad draws on a childhood spent in Marcos's Philippines to explore the central theme of excess as a pre-cursor to collapse. His work centres on opposites created by their reverse – desire and disgust, decadence and decay. Using images clearly linked to historical excess that has led to downfall, Abad is interested in how the construction of pattern immediately instigates a system of control in the process of drawing and what happens when the drawing becomes a mere surface of a sculpture.