Black Holes

Acrylic on canvas

This exhibition features three black-and-white paintings exploring the visual and conceptual power of black holes. The works were created using Black 3.0 and White 2.0 by Stuart Semple, among the darkest and brightest commercially available pigments, to emphasize extreme contrast and the boundaries of perception. The series was inspired in part by the work of Anish Kapoor, whose use of Vantablack evokes total darkness and depth. Black holes felt like the natural subject for this palette, as they represent the absence of light and the edge of the visible universe. By combining my interest in astronomy with my practice as a painter, this series explores how an everyday medium can express something almost unimaginable: immense gravitational force, vastness, and the tension between presence and void. Painting “nothing” with pigment became a way to make the invisible feel tangible.