Attack the Canvas
2024
Oil stick on paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

FLUXUS

‘FLUXUS’ is a collaboration between Edinburgh-based artists Lynn Ahrens and Constantine.. The Artist.' FLUXUS’ calls upon the viewer to enter a space where reality is transformed into strange and obscure shapes. The figure is the prominent theme across the artists’ works, often distorted, warped, smudged and coloured into uncomfortable and contorted shapes and forms. The figure is used in a colourful manner in Constantine..’s work, juxtaposed with the darker, eerie nature of Ahrens’.This contrast invites the viewer to consider both sides of the self: our vibrant and ostentatious against our hidden, ugly and unstable aspects. It is important to embrace both the light and dark within ourselves. This exhibition encourages us to uncover and appreciate the fluidity and flow between the light and dark; that the lines can often be blurred


Words by Emily-Rose, writer.

FLUXUS explores the instability of identity through fragmented figures, shifting forms and an instinctive approach to painting. Bodies and faces emerge, overlap and dissolve across the surface, moving between recognition and abstraction.

The series developed through a deliberately immediate process in which gesture, colour and line are allowed to remain exposed. Rather than resolving the figure into a fixed image, the paintings retain evidence of their construction—corrections, collisions and changes of direction becoming part of the finished work.

Through this tension between control and spontaneity, FLUXUS considers identity as something fluid rather than fixed: continually assembled, disrupted and remade.

FLUXUS is an ongoing body of work begun in 2024.

I'll Take My Time, I'll Enjoy My Cigar
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

Seduce the Canvas
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

Emily’s Guitar, Has No Strings
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

You're Being Too Serious
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

My Spanish Hat
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)

Bang Bang
2024
Oil and acrylic on mount paper
43 × 32 in (109.2 × 81.3 cm)