Tjalling’s work traverses a range of media including painting, photography and collage, as well as sound and site-specific projects. Over the past few years he has been painting on canvas, linen and billboard fragments using a mishmash of found cartoon imagery, gestural painterly marks and accidental traces. Structured around the principles of collage, this playful layering of imagery developed from a series of questions concerning the formal processes of image-making. In this sense, Tjalling’s works respond to the often contingent and experimental practices of the studio, becoming humorous ruminations on the very act of painting. 

Photo Credit: Daniela Aebli