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Reginald S. Aloysius
Born 1970
Lives and works in London
2005-2007 Kingston University, MA in Drawing
1994-1997 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, BFA Hons, Oxford University

 My practice explores themes of globalization, emigration, and destruction of tradition - intentionally or otherwise -through development and modernisation..

The detailed drawings of South Indian Hindu temples are examples of Dravidian architecture looming out from the undergrowth, but they are not ‘ruins’, they are still active places of worship. Coupled with a sensuous and delicate use of enamel paint create an alluring relationship between drawing and painting.
Each work is embellished with carvings of modernist architectural shapes and aircraft flight plans; a scarring that mirrors the irreparable change that an evolving society can have on ancient tradition, melding together two quite different iconographic registers.

Drawing relates to other processes of cultural mark making, including the introduction of an international style of modern architecture that inscribes itself on age-old landscapes and cultures. I reference such structures in the paintings through a series of thin lines that suggest a tension between the old and the new.