Mick Paulusma United Kingdom

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Mick Paulusma (b. 1972 Winnipeg, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice resides at the intersection of post-digital exploration and embodied gesture. He uses analog and digital elements to foster new modes of artistic expression by intertwining personal experiences, the universal qualities of open gestures, and the impact of technology on the drawing practice

Mick Paulusma creates large-scale prints and projections made from digital sculptures of gestures such as hugging or wild swimming. Using technology as a collaborator, his work cuts across the increasingly symbiotic worlds of digital and physical art to illustrate how so many of our modern social interactions exist in both. The works, which play with our notions of what is real, seek to simultaneously occupy the space where they are displayed physically in 2D form and the digital world in which they co-exist in 3D. Canadian-born and living in the UK, his works evoke a sense of familiarity, connectedness and belonging.

Mick Paulusma's practice embraces a post-digital framework, where the convergence of analog and digital elements fosters new modes of artistic expression. By intertwining personal experiences, the universal qualities of open gestures, and the impact of technology on the drawing practice, Mick invites viewers to contemplate the interconnectedness of physical and digital spaces and the transformative power of embracing multiple cultural and geographical influences.