46. Joseph Black - Scape

2026
Oil on aluminium
13 x 13 cm

Joseph Black’s practice uses nature as a pretext for exploring vision and perception. Rather than depicting the natural world as a purely external space, his work approaches it as a field of perception — a place where looking, naming, preserving and mythologising converge. Through painting, the cultivated landscape becomes both subject and metaphor, revealing how systems of representation shape not only how we see the world, but how we understand and experience it.

Balancing observation with abstraction, Black’s work considers landscape as something framed, edited and suspended between permanence and change. Memory, perception and the poetic potential of space are central concerns, creating paintings that exist in dialogue with both historical modes of representation and contemporary questions around vision and interpretation.

Black studied for an MA in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art between 2015 and 2025, following a BA (Hons) in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts from 2012 to 2015.