"My current approach to painting is about contextualizing the ritual or performance of painting where technical processes are seen as living analogies or manifestations of theoretical processes, i.e. the pouring of paint into a ‘flow’ of sediments across a gradient is linked with the ‘flow’ of information through a system. The sediments perform like data and are bifurcated and restructured as they flow over the gradient, through the system. This performance of the ‘flow’ of paint from source to sink is documented in a finished work through oppositions in pattern/randomness and presence/absence. In self-contained ‘Flows’, paint is poured through a canvas structure or ‘black box’, where only the inputs (pours)/outputs (leakages) are visible until the canvas is drawn out from 3D black box to 2D frame exposing the structural adjustments in the meeting of paint and canvas. The performances are also documented through new technologies. Video and photographic documentation of the ‘Flow’ performances illustrate a novel contextual and self-reflexive approach to painting and its meanings. "

Alan Boardman is an Irish painter based in Berlin. He graduated from Limerick College of Art & Design in 2003 with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting. Selected exhibitions include: 'Sinks and Reservoirs', solo show, The Crow Gallery, Dublin (2008); 'Presence', Limerick City Gallery (2007); 'Rotfabrik', solo show, The Crow Gallery, Dublin (2007); Affordable Art Fair, New York (2007); Microsoft Ireland Art Collection 19th Exhibition (2006); 'A Hybrid Account', Bank of Ireland Arts Centre (2006); EV&A (2005); Cruises Café (2003) and The Hunt Museum, Limerick (2001 & 2002). His work is in the collections of: The Hunt Museum Limerick; Microsoft Ireland Art Collection; Office of Public Works; Bank of Ireland Art Collection and Mason, Hayes + Curran.