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Contemporary artist working on a large abstract canvas in a spacious studio with natural light — Studio practice · editorial feature preview

Iris Vale — Faultline Study IV, oil and limestone dust on linen, 2025

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Iris Vale

Vales practice explores geological memory through pigment, abrasion, and layered sediment-like surfaces. Her canvases hold the tension between measured formal restraint and visceral material presence.

In this feature, the artists recent works are considered as quiet architectures of timewhere repeated gestures, mineral tones, and controlled fracture lines produce images that feel both excavated and newly formed.

Based: Brussels, Belgium
Primary media: Oil, limestone dust, graphite
Current focus: Material memory & fracture

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Installation view, North Hall, Spring 2026

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Composed works and details

A curated field of works, studies, and installation views. Image-led, with discreet notes for medium, place, and year.

Painting · 2025

Untitled strata composition, pigment and oil on linen, documented at Studio Room A.

Sculpture · Rotterdam

Bronze and resin study with oxidized surface and hand-cast irregular base.

Installation · 2026

Spatial intervention using suspended textile, directional light, and acoustic hush.

Photographic work · Edition

Silver gelatin print sequence tracing shifting light across faceted modern facades.

Detail crop · Material study

Macro surface fragment revealing palette-knife ridges, abrasion marks, and wax medium bloom.